8.1: Latina Poetry as an Expression of Cultural Heritage Answers

Which excerpt from “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica” is an example of an allusion?

Read the passage from “Child of the Americas.”I am Caribeña, island grown. Spanish is in my flesh, ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:the language of garlic and mangoes, the singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands. Based on the imagery in the passage, how does the speaker feel when she is speaking Spanish?

Read the passage from the poem “Child of the Americas.”I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish. I was born at the crossroadsand I am whole. The author’s word choice helps to reflect a tone of

In the poem “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica,” which description suggests that the speaker is fond of the shopkeeper?

Read the passage from “Child of the Americas.”I am Caribeña, island grown. Spanish is in my flesh, ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:the language of garlic and mangoes, the singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands. The words “garlic and mangoes” in this passage are

How is the speaker’s point of view in the poem “Child of the Americas” used to explore cultural identity?

Which excerpt from “Child of the Americas” contains imagery that expresses how language becomes part of the speaker’s physical identity?

Read the passage from “Child of the Americas.”I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent: I speak from that body. In these two lines, the speaker is showing how

Read the passage from “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.”all wanting the comfortof spoken Spanish, to gaze upon the family portraitof her plain wide face, her ample bosomresting on her plump arms, her look of maternal interestas they speak to her and each otherof their dreams and their disillusions—Which best describes the role of the speaker?