Read this excerpt We know we will be winning the war when people in the
state of Michigan do not have to vote on whether diversity
in our university classrooms is a good thing.
- Jennifer Granholm, "Remembering Rosa Parks"
Why does Granholm play with language in the underlined portion of this
excerpt from "Remembering Rosa Parks"?
O A. To use a metaphor to help the audience create a mental image
O B. To organize her speech so that the audience can follow along
O C. To establish the main message of diversity in her speech
O D. To make her speech more interesting for the audience to listen to

Which ideas are expressed as literacy themes?

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. 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 states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.

Identify what is wrong with each italicized pronoun reference. carolyn sang higher than the other sopranos but she didn't support it properly. placed too far from antecedent no specific antecedent ambiguous reference