Unit 9: Longer Fiction or Drama III

The narrator's description of Mrs. Okafor's English as having "a formal precision that made native speakers feel sloppy" primarily characterizes

Mrs. Okafor's distinction between "complicated" and "complex" functions in the passage as

The passage's central irony is that

The final two sentences — about the conference answer and the applause — contribute to the passage's effect primarily by

The structure of Judge Almeida's sentencing speech — moving from personal regret to legal language — reveals

The stage direction "(The judge removes her glasses and sets them on the bench)" before delivering the sentence primarily functions to

The narrator's characterization of translation as "controlled betrayal" reveals

Yuki's paradox — that "her greatest successes were her most invisible crimes" — implies that

The repeated structural pattern — "She had been the kind of woman who..." — achieves its rhetorical effect by

The daughter's concluding thought — "love is learning to grieve someone while they are still alive" — redefines love as

The setting's primary function in this passage is to

An allegory differs from a simple symbol because an allegory:

A bildungsroman is a novel that:

A catharsis in tragedy provides the audience with:

Metafiction is fiction that:

Satire in literature aims to:

An anti-hero differs from a traditional hero because an anti-hero:

The passage characterizes the relationship between Hana and her mother primarily through

The simile in the final sentence most directly conveys the character's sense of

The passage as a whole is best interpreted as depicting