The climax of To Kill a Mockingbird is when Tom Robinson is found guilty. The falling action of To Kill a Mockingbird is when Jem struggles with the judgement. Bob Ewell spits on Atticus. Jem and Atticus discuss trial process.
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.
Denotative is the dictionary meaning, while connotative refers to the connotation of the word. For example, crunchy has a positive connotation, and, say, brittle, has a negative connotation. Do you have specific words/phrases?
