A Is The Answer. I Am Sure.
Laura judges Rita by looks instead of actually finding out by asking. Never judge a book by its cover as they say. Also Laura focused more on Rita than herself causing herself to fall behind. Hope it helped.
D. By using imaginative and descriptive language
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.