Latina Poetry as an Expression of Cultural Heritage
Question 3 of 10 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B Credit Recovery 5 Credits
Read the passage from “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.”she is the Patroness of Exiles...who spends her days selling canned memorieswhile listening to the Puerto Ricans complainthat it would be cheaper to fly to San Juanthan to buy a pound of Bustelo coffee here,and to Cubans perfecting their speechof a “glorious return” to Havana...to Mexicans who pass through, talking lyricallyof dólares to be made in El Norte—The Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans in the passage help to create the image that
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the woman who runs the deli speaks many languages.