Answer:
metaphors facts and statistics
Explanation:
She makes a metaphor comparing the cultural patchwork of the United States to a quilt, in which components coming from many various places are assembled to form a unified new item.
Each little square of the quilt is associated to a group a people who currently live in the US but who came from one of a great many different places all around the world, like native Americans, British, Irish, Chinese, Mexican people, just to name a few, bringing their own colors to the nation.
