Answer and Explanation:
"The Turtle" is a poem by author Mary Oliver in which a beautiful and sacred action is described. The speaker is delighted by a turtle laying her eggs in the sand, patiently, full of a drive no one - not even the turtle herself - knows where it comes from. T<u>he speaker also draws attention to the fact that the turtle is unaware of itself as an individual. She sees herself as the world, and world as herself, all things converging to keep life going:</u>
<em>she is a part of the pond she lives in,
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<em>the tall trees are her children,
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<em>the birds that swim above her
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<em>are tied to her by an unbreakable string.</em>
<u>The word choice in this stanza is particularly interesting. The author chose to say that the birds "swim" above the turtle. That serves to enhance the sense of connectedness. There is no difference between the turtle and the birds. They all fly; they all swim; they are all a part of the world, and the world itself. Even though they may appear different, they belong together in nature, completing the gorgeous mosaic of life. "Swim" only helps convey this beautiful idea that the turtle "can't see herself apart from the rest of the world."</u>
Books and gifts are being compared.
Simile is when you use "like"
What is important to Wang's mother based on the story she tells him at the beginning of American Born Chinese is:
A. Education
She tells the story of a mother and a son who tends to imitate what he sees around him, in the first part they lived next to a market place and the song played as a market seller, second they moved next to a cemetery and the son played burning incense and praying to the dead, third they moved next to a university and the son spent his time studying and reading, the mother decided to stay there for a long time.
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.
The words chosen to create meaningful dependent clauses are the following ones:
a) Although Marissa likes to bake, she doesn't like to cook (this conjunction is used to make the main statement in a sentence seem surprising)
b) I have an idea that I think you will like (the complementizer introduces the noun-complement clause attached to the noun "idea")
c) If we drive slowly, we will find it (the conjunction used to introduce a conditional clause)
d) French, which we also had last year, is my hardest subject (a relative pronoun, which in this case, introduces a non-essential relative clause)
