"Music for My Mother"

Which of the following is an example of dialogue from "Music from My Mother?"

• "And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry... from this feeling."

• He rises at dawn almost every day and goes to work with Pedrito, building houses.

• Mama would just smile and shake her head. But she always repeated the words we had helped her with. In time her English got better too, but she was far more at ease in her native tongue.

• I was seven years old when we came to the United States. Pedrito was 11.

Which of the following is an example of exposition?

• "And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry... from this feeling."

• Mama would just smile and shake her head. But she always repeated the words we had helped her with. In time her English got better too, but she was far more at ease in her native tongue.

• He rises at dawn almost every day and goes to work with Pedrito, building houses.

• I was seven years old when we came to the United States. Pedrito was 11.

Which of the following is an example of description?

• "And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry... from this feeling."

• He rises at dawn almost every day and goes to work with Pedrito, building houses.

• Mama would just smile and shake her head. But she always repeated the words we had helped her with. In time her English got better too, but she was far more at ease in her native tongue.

• I was seven years old when we came to the United States. Pedrito was 11.

Which of the following is an example of conflict?

• "And seeing myself so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind, I want to cry... from this feeling."

• Mama would just smile and shake her head. But she always repeated the words we had helped her with. In time her English got better too, but she was far more at ease in her native tongue.

• He rises at dawn almost every day and goes to work with Pedrito, building houses.

• I was seven years old when we came to the United States. Pedrito was 11.

Which of the following words do we use in storytelling to talk about what used to happen often?

• could

• should

• would

• shan't