Answer:
The line in the above excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" that shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience is: “The talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club, and it was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room.”
Explanation:
Exposition. You get an idea of what kind of guy the man is from the way he is being described.
Answer: A.) Comparing something that is part of nature to something that is not shows that plastic bags are a problem.
Explanation:
I got it right.
Answer:
Poetic in both blanks.
The rhymes stick in the readers mind
Answer:
•There are plenty of giraffes and wild asses on the islands.
•The wild boars on the island are as big as buffaloes, with 14 lb tusks.
•The gryphon birds are monstrous in size
Explanation:
To the writer, the island was amazing due to the sheer amount of wildlife it has, the diversity of said wildlife as well as the characteristics they had.
The writer found the fact that there were so many giraffes and wild asses on the island to be amazing and the size of the wild boars also awed them as well. The gryphon birds being monstrous is size was another amazing thing.
