On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. What message does Amy Tan's description send?
A) She feels that her mother is preparing the most unusual food she has ever prepared for one meal.
B)She believes her mother is trying to impress the minister's family by making more food than they could possibly eat.
C)She is impressed that her mother has taught herself how to make a new variety of unusual recipes.
D)She is confident that the minister's family will think her mother is strange if she serves the food she is preparing.

What kinds of images does the word "twinkling" suggest? dirt, earth, poverty, race leaves, trees, green, spring stars, dreams, looking upward, heaven darkness, sadness, loneliness, isolation they eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. dinner is a casual affair. plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, tin flatware. two who are mostly good. two who have lived their day, but keep on putting on their clothes and putting things away. and remembering, with twinklings and twinges, as they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths. tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

Metonymy is best defined as a figure of speech in which

The following sentence contains what type of conjunction? he is not only a great player but also an exceptional coach