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Which of the following is not an example of when you would be required to present requisite skills? on a job interview; to get into college; to fly to Hawaii; to drive a car
to fly to Hawaii
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What is the best definition of resonate?
to have great effect or impact
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What does it reveal about Yang's economic situation for her family to work through the night for a nominal increase in their wages?
The family is struggling.
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What does the need to recap Yang's understanding of recent events for her grandmother reveal about her family?
Yang believes her immediate family's success reflects on her entire family, and that her grandmother will be proud.
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How does both meanings of expiration are appropriately used in yang's situation on pg. 63?
She is describing how the illness is making it difficult for her to breathe and the crisis could have led her to death.
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Someone who is despondent feels..
hopeless
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What does chide mean?
to scold or correct
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The author says that writing "cooled my head: like water over a small burn in the pit of my mind." What does this simile explain about why yang became a writer?
It acknowledges her strong need to write so intensely, that she can almost feel it physically.
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Reread lines 359-384. What idea or feeling does "I could feel the cold settling in" convey?
It conveys the idea that Yang is near death, or believes she is dying.
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In the memoir, the author bases her essay on Romeo and Juliet on her own life experience. What does this insight teach her about herself as a writer?
It teaches her to write "about what mattered to her."
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Reread lines 398-421. How does Yang resolve her conflict?
She realizes that she cannot be Hmong or American, because she is both.
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Reread lines 17-22. How does the allusion suggest how Yang began to see herself?
Yang begins to see herself as American.
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IoReread lines 9-15. What sense or senses does Yang's imagery appeal to?
It appeals to the sense of sight.
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Reread lines 92-93. How does this simile Yang uses help her readers to develop a final impression of the house?
It gives the idea that the house is rundown, used, and cheap.
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What does Yang mean when she says that in comparison to her sister, she is "lost"?
Dawb is a great student and Yang has trouble expressing herself.
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In line 429, how does Yang's use of the word murky suggest about the origin of the Hmong people?
It suggests that her illness is not clear just like the Hmong origins are not clear.
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How do you know that the bracelet continues to by a symbol for Yang even after she gets better?
She keeps the bracelet even after it breaks.
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What is a comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, or as if?
Simile
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What is a vivid description that appeals to one or more of the reader's five senses?
Imagery
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What is the comparison between two unlike things without the use of the words like or as?
Metaphor
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What does Yang mean when she says that she "pushed against the skin that contained" her?
She is growing and changing, while still trying to maintain the life and relationships she has always known.
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Reread lines 199-216. Why does Yang believe that her parents are a better example of love than Romeo and Juliet? Cite Textual Evidence.
Her parents stayed together even when their lives became difficult, something Romeo and Juliet “never had the chance” to do. Her parents “might each have an easier one apart,” and “your children see you cry.” But, “because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.”
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Reread lines 338-350. Identify the difference in Yang's father's response and her own. How is Yang's reaction also different from her earlier feeling about their house? Cite Textual Evidence.
Yang’s father expresses his sadness through is poetry and music, “carried love songs about the falling apart of a country” and “made music of the loneliness.” Yang directs her anger at their living conditions: “could not see poetry in the mold that grew wild” and “our house, so cute on the outside, rotted on the inside.” Earlier she saw the house as a sign of their success in America, while now it is just another element of their struggle.
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"We sank our roots deep into the land, took stake in the ground..." is an example of a
Metaphor
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"I could hear the pounding of my heart in my ears, very loud and deep, like a hollow cry from my chest" is an example of a
Simile
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