Answer:
The option which best explains how Nye's text structure helps establish her voice in the excerpt is:
A. Nye relates a story about something she heard to emphasize the point she wants to make about heritage.
Explanation:
In "Speaking Arabic," Naomi Shihab Nye discusses heritage. In the particular excerpt we are analyzing here, she relates something she heard a man say once about wanting to have a heritage. Her purpose in relating his words is to address people's need to have a fixed, specific identity. Being of mixed ethnicities, Nye wants to show that diversity is also an identity, a heritage. That is why she also mentions the different food stores and the American trees. The man is surrounded by heritage but is blinded to it by his need to define and specify it.
C.) The lightening lit up my bedroom like a lamp. The speaker/author is describing the lightening as a bright strike, causing the room to be lit up. He is using a simile to describe how it is LIKE a lamp, not actually one.
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Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China. It has a population of over 24 million people. In the last couple decades Shanghai has been on of the fastest growing cities. The city is one of the most expensive cities to live in China. It is also one of the main industrial centers. Shanghai is also home to one of the largest free-trade zones in China.
