In this excerpt from Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game,” the conflict between Waverly and her mother reaches its peak. Which part of
the plot does the excerpt depict? I knew it was a mistake to say anything more, but I heard my voice speaking. “Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess.”
My mother’s eyes turned into dangerous black slits. She had no words for me, just sharp silence.
I felt the wind rushing around my hot ears. I forced my hand out of my mother’s tight grasp and spun around, knocking into a woman. Her bag of groceries spilled to the ground.
“Aii-ya! Ssttuuppidid girl!” my mother and the woman cried. Oranges and tin cans careened down the sidewalk. As my mother stooped to help the old woman pick up the escaping food, I took off.
A.
exposition
B.
rising action
C.
climax
D.
resolution
The story "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett, the author provided the local color of the rural side of Maine. Local color refers to the author's use of language and manners distinct to a particular region or a group of people. Local color was made popular during the literary movement of <em>realism</em> - a literary style dedicated to representing familiar things as they are.
