But the specter of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination. At first, she didn't want to, and then
she couldn't seem to write that speech. She should have thought of it as "a great honor," as her father called it. But she was mortified. She still had a slight accent, and she did not like to speak in public, subjecting herself to her classmates' ridicule. It also took no great figuring to see that to deliver a eulogy for a convent full of crazy, old, overweight nuns was no way to endear herself to her peers Read the passage about Yoyo. In two to three sentences, explain how language reveals a conflict she experiences.
The use of informal language and sarcasm in the text provided a vivid description of the turmoil Yoyo was passing through. Words and phrases such as "brown-nosing", "jammed", "deliver a eulogy for a convent full of crazy, old, overweight nuns," presented the ideas being conveyed by the speaker in a sarcastic manner.
Informal language deviates from the official use of a language and this was evident in many of the colloquial idioms that were used to describe Yoyo.
