Latin American Magic Realist Voices Answers
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Look at the diagram.This diagram is best used for helping a reader
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relate personally to a text.B
define hard vocabulary words in a text.C
monitor comprehension of a text.D
better understand the theme of a text.2
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Which best describes why Cristina Garcia chose a multi-narrative structure for Dreaming in Cuban?
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to illustrate that immigrants must choose one cultural identity over anotherB
to illustrate that there is not just one single Cuban identityC
to illustrate that the Cuban Revolution has not affected the younger generationD
to illustrate that people always value their own cultural identity most3
Which sentence from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban is an example of magic realism?
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Abuela Celia and I write to each other sometimes, but mostly I hear her speaking to me at night just before I fall asleep.A
At night, especially in the summer when the sound carries, I hear the low whistles of the ships as they leave New York harbor.L
Lourdes imagines these pieces, broken and bruised in unspeakable places, on piers and in alleyways, drifting down the river to the sea.O
One girl left with a broken leg after slipping on a bar of soap Pilar dropped while the nanny was bathing her in the sink.4
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Her name is Minnie French but she’s weirdly old-looking for a young person. Maybe it’s her name or the three shopping bags of food she has under her seat.I
I stared at them, tried to make them go away. I remember thinking, Okay, I’ll start with their hair, make it fall out strand by strand. They always left wearing kerchiefs to cover their bald patches.T
There were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. Dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins.O
Our house is on a cement plot near the East River. At night, especially in the summer when the sound carries, I hear the low whistles of the ships as they leave New York harbor.5
Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in Brooklyn. She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.
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relating the sentence to personal experiences
slowing down to break up the long sentencel
looking up unfamiliar words in the sentencer
reading the sentence out loud to himselfDid you find these answers helpful?
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