Author's Style and Layers of Meaning in Cane — Unit test Answers

Read this excerpt from the employee handbook for Carey’s Sandwiches. How does the organization of this section contribute to its purpose?

Read the passage.Crunch! The back of Mrs. Miller’s van crumpled slightly and folded into ripples.Jana slowly unfastened her seat belt and stepped out of the car. She thought to herself, "How could I not have seen Mrs. Miller’s van? Out of all the vehicles in this parking lot, I had to back into my Spanish teacher’s?”Mrs. Miller approached Jana in the parking lot. Luckily, she had not been in the van but was just leaving the building."Oh no! Jana, what happened?” asked Mrs. Miller as she stared at the twisted metal on her van."I am so sorry, Mrs. Miller. I promise I didn’t see your van!” pleaded Jana."Well, these things happen sometimes,” answered Mrs. Miller. "I know it was an honest mistake. However, you will need to call your insurance company because I need to have this fixed right away!”

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 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

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.As the girls approached the abandoned house at the end of the street, their pace slowed. They could see one lone light on through the cracked glass in a window. Why had they decided to take a run this late at night?

Read the excerpts from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” and “Speaking Arabic.”My friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. He took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of Spanish, English, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. In other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, “I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely for one.” And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head.Which structural element is used in the excerpt by Anaya but not in the excerpt by Nye?

What type of language should be used in a critical analysis essay?

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”I do not believe we should have to leave out the crucial elements of our language and culture to contribute to American literature, but, unfortunately, this is a conclusion I am forced to reach. I have been writing for a quarter century, and have been a published author for eighteen years. As a writer, I was part of the Chicano Movement which created a new literature in this country. Which best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetoric in the excerpt to convince readers that his conclusion is justified?

Read this excerpt from the employee handbook for Pepper’s Pizza. What text feature does the author use to highlight each section?

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

Which word could describe the mood of a text?

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. On February 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, Bless Me, Ultima. The book was banned from high school classes in Bloomfield, New Mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: “We took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.”Which best describes the rhetorical appeal used to illustrate the destructive nature of censorship?

Read the excerpt from Thomas Paine’s work Common Sense.O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.Which best describes the tone of this excerpt?