I believe that the options that best describe the qualities of the tragic heroine in these two passages are:
- They both show the main character sacrificing her life for her principles.
- They both show the main character experiencing a downfall and awaiting death.
- They both show moments in the main characters' experiences that evoke pity.
The tragic heroine trope portrays a female protagonist who ends up suffering terribly due to a fatal flaw in her character.
Answer:
Anita is angry with her mom.
Explanation:
This is difficult, as all of the answers seem very possible. From the information given, the only one that is for certain is the final option. I feel that the most appropriate answer is D (Anita is angry with her mom).
Answer:
His music was based on what he saw in his life.
Explanation:
Woody Guthrie's music caught the contrasting emotions of America and how people manage to survive and thrive in impossibly difficult times, so the phrase "All you can write is what you see" shows that he writes his music based on what he has experienced first hand or from the experiences of others.
It shows that Woody Guthrie put his pen to paper on what he saw in life.
Answer: C. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.
Explanation: The line from the excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" that shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience is the one stated above. In this excerpt, Amy Tan speaks about different kinds of English. There is one English that she used to use for her talks, and another completely different English which she uses with her mother, and in her intimacy.
