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Characters, Conflict, and Idioms in "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez Answers

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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best reveals that Carlos is still tied to his Dominican origin?

He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "iQue pasa? iQue pasa?"

“...It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words.

"Have you gone mad?" He shook her away. "You were going to let her read that . . . that insult to her teachers?"

He called down curses on her head, ordered her on his authority as her father to open that door!

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What variations in language can a reader look for to better understand a character? Choose four answers.

voice

pronunciation

volume

vocabulary

syntax

grammar

Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".Meanwhile, Yoyo was on her knees, weeping wildly, collecting all the little pieces of her speech, hoping that she could put it back together before the assembly tomorrow morning. But not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper. All hope was lost. "He broke it, he broke it," Yoyo moaned as she picked up a handful of pieces.

Yoyo is frustrated by her inability to write a good speech for the assembly at her school.

Yoyo is worried about insulting her teachers and peers with the speech she has written.

Yoyo is saddened by her father’s disapproval of the message in her speech for the assembly.

Yoyo is reminded of the terrors her father faced under the dictatorship of the Dominican Republic.

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himself

nature

others

society

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