In this excerpt from amy tan’s “rules of the game,” the conflict between waverly and her mother reaches its peak. which part of the plot does the excerpt depict?

i knew it was a mistake to say anything more, but i heard my voice speaking. “why do you have to use me to show off? if you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess.”

my mother’s eyes turned into dangerous black slits. she had no words for me, just sharp silence.

i felt the wind rushing around my hot ears. i ierked my hand out of my mother’s tight grasp and spun around, knocking into an old woman. her bag of groceries spilled to the ground.

“aii-ya! s t u p d girl! ” my mother and the woman cried. oranges and tin cans careened down the sidewalk. as my mother stooped to the old woman pick up the escaping food, i took off.

a. exposition
b. rising action
c. climax
d. resolution

C) Climax.

Explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, usually between a character (the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), society or another character (external conflict). The climax of a narrative is that particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point, and it often leads to the resolution (solution of the conflict). The given excerpt from Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game" is the climax of the story, because the conflict between Waverly and her mother reaches its peak.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.