10) Answer: as an adult, the author recalled how sweet the anguish of first love was."
Explanation: The main theme for the story "First Love" is unrequited love. The author recalls her experience and what she learned from it.
11) Answer: hyperbole.
Explanation: Hyperbole is an exaggeration of an idea. Judith is exaggerating because she would not actually exchange her mother for a peasant woman.
12) Answer: this is a simile, and it is important because it shows how inferior Judith feels compared to Sophia.
Explanation: Any comparison that uses the word "like" is a simile. Judith thought that Sophia was so beautiful that she was compared to a gold statue, and this made Judith feel insecure.
13) Answer: metaphor
Metaphor is a comparison in which a word or phrase is applied to something not applicable. In this passage, Judith describes her feelings by comparing her heart to a chorus.
An ancestral curse that complicates the lives of modern day characters.
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At the beginning of this excerpt, we see the narrator (Theodore Dreiser) reflecting on the nature of his brother. The excerpt then switches to the narrative storytelling of an event that clarifies and supports this reflection. Because this is a work of nonfiction and Dreiser is recounting real people and their experiences, he makes it known that it’s almost impossible to use words to capture the essence of what his brother was truly like. He proceeds to narrate an incident that helps the readers get a better understanding of his brother and his nature. Dreiser describes the incident as though he is telling a fictional story. He provides descriptive details about the atmosphere and the character (his brother) in the scene, just like a scene from a piece of fiction. He draws on his factual knowledge of his brother’s traits and uses this brief, real-life incident to help readers understand his brother and how he was generous, sympathetic, and a tad bit mischievous. He uses descriptive language to add depth to the incident and maintain readers’ attention.
Amy Tan describes several conflicts that she experiences during this dinner. She desires Robert and his caucasian features, and wishes she could be white and have a slim American nose like his. She is unsatisfied, in that moment, with everything that makes her Chinese, including her own features and especially the traditionally Chinese food that her mom is cooking. In the American context, this food seems foreign and strange.
Her mom, a wise woman who knows her well, recognizes this. She softens her reproach with a western gift, the miniskirt, but tells her that she should not feel shame in her heritage, and that she should be proud and confident as a Chinese person. The interesting idea at the end of the passage is that, although she felt embarrassed in the moment by the food her mom was preparing, they all happened to be her favorite foods. This captures the cultural conflict that the narrator internally feels; she is Chinese, and loves many aspects of her culture, but feels ashamed of them when she experiences in the American context.