from Brown Girl Dreaming

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What is the most likely reason the author tells her memoir in verse, not prose?

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To reflect the way people often recall memories

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Which idea does the figurative language in the sentences from the poem “writing #1” best express? When I speak, / the words come pouring out of me. The story / wakes up and walks all over the room.

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Telling made-up stories aloud comes easily to the speaker.

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How does the sentence "But as I bend over my composition notebook, / only my name / comes quickly." contribute to the poem “writing #1”?

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It establishes the conflict.

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In the poem “late autumn,” the speaker changes from feeling —

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confident to discouraged

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In contrast to the poem “the other woodson,” the poem “reading” shows how the speaker —

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feels pride in being different from her sister

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Which three elements of a memoir is this sentence an example of? "I’d never have believed / that someone who looked like me / could be in the pages of the book / that someone who looked like me / had a story."

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Informal tone, First-person point of view, Insight into personal important moment

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The last three lines of the poem “when i tell my family” show that the speaker —

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plans to be a writer regardless of what others say

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What mood does the quotation "When I speak, / the words come pouring out of me." convey from the poems?

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hopeful

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What mood does the quotation convey from the poems: "Until there is nothing but pink / bits of eraser and a hole now"?

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depressing

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The speaker’s frequent comparisons between herself and her sister best emphasize —

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how incapable the speaker feels