Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative. read this excerpt from "mother tongue" by amy tan. then she began to talk more loudly. “what he want, i come to new york tell him front of his boss, you cheating me? ” and i was trying to calm her down, make her be quiet, while telling the stockbroker, “i can’t tolerate any more excuses. if i don’t receive the check immediately, i am going to have to speak to your manager when i’m in new york next week.” and sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and i was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real mrs. tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken english. how does this paragraph develop the idea that a person's ability to use language has nothing to do with his or her intelligence? it shows an instance in which someone with little mastery of a language nonetheless wisely and correctly recognizes that she is being taken advantage of. it provides an example of a time when a person who struggled to use language effectively was outsmarted by someone who was more adept with words. it depicts an incident in which having mastered a language actually proves to be a sign of foolishness or ignorance. it describes an occurrence in which the author, who has mastered the language, is shown to be less intelligent than her mother, who hasn't.

Which term below is the literary term for the technique authors use to stimulate one or more of the reader's five senses? a tone b personification c imagery d rhyme

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

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