Question

Read the paragraph from Sanjay's literary analysis essay.

Answer 1

A. Tan uses an allusion to the familiar nursery rhyme about the cow jumping over the moon to help readers experience what the character is feeling.

C. Tan uses characterization, developing Jing-mei by describing how she responds to her mother's actions.

D. Tan uses imagery to give the reader a mental picture of the main character's experiences with her mother.

Answer 2

• A. Tan uses an allusion to the familiar nursery rhyme about the cow jumping over the moon to help readers experience what the character is feeling. --- The allusion is a figure of speech characterized by the use of a reference or quotation to a fact or person, necessarily known by the interlocutor. In this excerpt, Amy tan uses the allusion to give the reader a sense of comfort and security that the family environment can provide.
• C. Tan uses characterization, developing Jing-mei by describing how she responds to her mother's actions. --- The characterization is the description of the distinctive character traits that acts primarily to determine the physical or psychological profile of the characters as living parts of a story. In this story, Amy Tan decided to describe the character so as to pass on to the reader how the character's personality interferes in how he reacts to his mother's actions
• D. Tan uses imagery to give the reader a mental picture of the main character's experiences with her mother.  --- Imagery is a literary device used by writers to deepen the meaning of something in the work. The Imagery aims to sharpen the senses of the reader to make him have strong feelings about what he is reading. Amy Tan used imagery to deepen the reader's understanding of the main character's experiences with her mother.