Read the excerpt from "Speaking Arabic."
At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican
Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, "I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely
for one." And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head.
Which best explains how Nye's word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt?
O Nye uses short, forceful words to support her opinion that an American heritage is limited and mechanical.
O Nye describes a neighborhood fair to support her opinion that the idea of an American heritage does not exist.
O Nye creates a powerful image of trees to support her opinion that living among a variety of cultures is an American
heritage.
Nye directly quotes something she heard in order to express her distress over a lack of American heritage.
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Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but there is another story as well. information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. in fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom. how do the details in this passage support the authors’ purpose? the details about the expansion of sugar inform readers about how widespread the use of sugar was. the details about human knowledge inform readers about how humans learned about sugar. the details about ideas and global connections persuade readers that sugar’s story has multiple consequences. the details about the spread of information about sugar entertain readers with stories of travel.
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This excerpt is repeated several times. what effect does this repetition have on the epic
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Read the excerpt from "Speaking Arabic."
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