|Abe) Read the excerpt from "First Generation" of Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia.
She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Lider, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly
missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the
Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Frustrated, El Lider went home,
rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the a mountains.
Which best explains how Garcia's word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt?
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Garcia uses short, forceful words to assert a pessimistic opinion on fate.
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Garcia uses formal, academic language and location words to suggest a theory about fate.
O Garcia uses American baseball terminology to suggest fate's defeat.
O Garcia uses words with positive connotations to suggest an optimistic outlook on fate.

Which sentence uses all its nominative case pronouns correctly? a we live on the same street b them and rachel are good skaters. c the redskins fans in the family are fred and me d have joanne and him played tennis together before?

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.