Read the excerpt from Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem “El Olvido.” a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls, a forgetting place where she fears you will die of loneliness and exposure. Jesús, María, y José , she says, el olvido is a dangerous thing. Which strategy would be most helpful in enhancing the reader’s comprehension of the poem?
Answer
A
breaking the lines into shorter phrases
B
rewriting each line by hand
C
skimming the lines for familiar words
D
establishing the meaning of words in English and Spanish