Question

Which excerpt of Maya Angelou's memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an example of dialect?

Answer 1

B. Yes, ma'am. Sure do. Store-bought clothes ain't hardly worth thread it take to stitch them.

Dialect involves the spelling, sounds, grammar and pronunciation used by a particular group of people. It distinguishes them from other people around them.

Answer 2

Answer:

Option B. The excerpt from Maya Angelou's memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" that states: "Yes ma'am. Sure Do. Store-bought clothes ain't hardly wort thread t take to stitch them.", is an example of dialect.

Explanation:

The term dialect is used to define a variety of language that by features of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar, that is characteristic of people that live in a specific region or country. Words such as "ma'am" "sure do" and "ain't" are all part of the dialect that, specially, English American speakers use, and it can be even linked to the southern region of the country, in which the majority of its citizens habitually use this contractions and phrases.