Answer:
if im thinking right, it's "gone"
<span>passionately curious all your life</span>
For question excerpt number 1, <span>Garcia uses American baseball terminology to suggest fate’s defeat explains how Garcia’s word choice identifies her voice in the excerpt.
Same as excerpt number 2 in which the statement "</span>Soto relates a story from his life to make a point about what it means to live in a multicultural society" explains how Soto's established his voice in the passage.
Both statement explains how the structures of the excerpts are similar because "Each presents factual evidence to appeal to the reader’s logic".
Text to Self. It helps the Narrator connect the story to himself so the reader will visualize better
