Read the excerpt from Rudolfo Anaya’s essay “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.” Tortillas and poetry. They go hand in hand.
Books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. Our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . . . I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. I travel to foreign countries, and I know more about myself as I learn more about my fellow human beings. Censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. Which phrase from the excerpt best uses persuasion?
A. "about the art and literature of the different cultures"
B. "I travel to foreign countries, and I know more about myself”
C. "Our distinct cultures nourish each one of us"
D. "just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas”
I believe the answer is C. Robin liked to combine old ideas with new ones. It never says her grandmother liked to write letters with her, it doesn't say that her grandmother gave her stationary, and she wrote her letters by hand.
The correct answer is While breaking one pencil during the SATs is bad luck, breaking six pencils is downright abysmal. Because abysmal is an adjective, and in the rest of the examples it is incorrectly used instead of a noun.
