1. When the narrator states: "As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak," what does she mean by voiceless? O She lost her voice due to laryngitis. She cannot hear herself among the crowds of people. She is ignored and cannot speak up for herself due to language barrier and her status as an immigrant. She does not know when it is appropriate to speak up.

The above question contains a para which is extracted from the story, "America and I" which is based on the author's journey in a new country. In each sentence and line, she has used different personifications and Imagery to depict her views and attitude towards America.

If we will see the short story, In the opening lines only She told that, "As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak." is stated by her because she was one of the those millions of immigrants who arrived there and she was not able to hear herself in that crowd. The beautiful line which shows this is, One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding

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covert: hidden or secret

candid: truthful and straightforward

what i get from these phrases is covert means undercover or underground and that's where the flower is in april. on the other hand, may is the month where flowers start to bloom and thats the reason why candid is being used as a word to describe the blossoming period of a flower.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.