Question

What effect does the use of mixed Spanish and English have in this excerpt from "Freeway 280" by Lorna Dee Cervantes?

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) The mixed language celebrates the poet's bicultural and bilingual identity.

The effect that the use of mixed Spanish and English has in this excerpt from "Freeway 280" by Lorna Dee Cervantes is "The mixed language celebrates the poet's bicultural and bilingual identity."

Lorna wrote the poem in 1954. As an American with Mexican roots, she expressed this cultural mix of both nations in her pieces of work. She takes the best of both, Americans and Mexican, and put it in her poems. She has written another two books on poetry: "Emplumada" (1981) and "From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger" (1991).

Answer 2

Answer:

Lorna Dee Cervantes who is an American poet and activist, has Mexican and Native American ancestry, she has won several awards for her writings and work with both communities.

This excerpt highlights her bilingualism by easily combining Spanish and English words, which is an obvious display of embracing both cultures, the essence of being "Chicana" ; the trend started around the 1960s to empower the Chicano identity in U.S.A.

Thereby the best answer is (A.)

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