Word Choice and Theme in "Fences" and "The Legend"
Assignment Active
Recognizing Interesting Diction
Which word from the passage is an example of
interesting diction?
Mouths full of laughter,
the turistas come to the tall hotel
with suitcases full of dollars.
-"Fences,"
Pat Mora
tunistas
O
"with
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