Question

“The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday is a personal and historical narrative that draws on

Answer 1

ABSTRACT ; Answers for test .

• pirai traditions which can as rhetorical .

• methods of verbal coinmuhication intended to transmit essential
• cultural values to the next generatibnv are as vital a part of
• the lives of many Native Americans today as they have been for
• centuries. Some critics feel that one essential ingredient of
• these traditions is the performance dimension; the rhetorical
• dichotomy of storyteller/audience cannot be repiicated by the
• author/reader relationship. However, a new generation of
• Native American storytellers has evolved in the recent past
• who seek to modify this storytelling experience and present it
• in a European literary form. N. Scott Momaday is one of this
• new geheration, and has been considered by some to be a bridge
• between the oral and written traditions.
• This study proposes that there are essential elements of
• oral traditions that can survive and even thrive in a literary
• form. The performance dimension is only one part of the
• whole, and oral traditions exist beyond the storytelling
• event. Indian authors, and N. SCott Momaday in particular,
• incorporate elements of these traditions in their works by
• using rhetorical techniques in a uniquely Native American way.
• Thus they use the medium of print to transmit oral values to
• the hext generation of Native Americans and other readers who
• spend the time to seek to understand cultures that are
• different from their own.

Hope it helps! The answer, I think is B, If I'm incorrect let me know.

Answer 2

Answer:

B. Native American history and traditions, and reflects a love of the land.

Explanation: