Question

Read the excerpts from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” and “Speaking Arabic.”

Answer 1

The two excerpts given above are from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” and “Speaking Arabic" and based on these two excerpts, how the structures of these two supports the thought of cultural diversity is that, each has incorporated non-English words in it, such as pachuco, tortillas, and Oom-pah.

Answer 2

Each author uses non-English words and figurative language.

The authors uses the words tortillas, pachucos, Oom-pah, and Gorditas. These are non-English words. They also use figurative language. When he says took the "tortillas out of his poetry", he is talking about how he is removing evidence of his Hispanic culture from his poetry. He thinks it will give him a better chance. In the second passage they are talking about overhearing someone who seems to wish for a heritage, not realizing that America has a heritage. The sensory detail of the American trees dangling their branches over his head is used to emphasize this.