About the characters
What is the author's name?
Bharati Mukherjee
What rhetorical strategy does this show?: “Have we the right to demand and to expect that we be loved?”
Rhetorical Question
Who is Mira?
Mukherjee's sister
What rhetorical strategy does this show?: “I am an American citizen and she is not. I am moved that thousands of long-term residents are finally taking the oath of citizenship. She is not."
Juxtaposition
True or false: Mira is an American citizen
How do Mukherjee and her sister communicate?
They communicate through the phone.
What rhetorical strategy is this? : "...alike as peas in a pod..."
idiom
True or false: Mira lives in New York
False
What rhetorical strategy is this?: "...I love my work, I love my students, I love the friends I've made."
Anaphora
Mukherjee married a(n)______
A) fellow student, an American of Canadian parentage
B) Indian student
A
What rhetorical strategy is this: "She is happier to live in America as expatriate Indian than as an immigrant American."
Irony