Read the passage from "names/nombres" by julia alvarez.

my dominican heritage was never more apparent than when my extended
family attended school occasions. for my graduation, they all came, the whole lot of aunts and uncles and the many little cousins who snuck in without tickets. they sat in the first row in order to better understand the americans' fast-spoken english. but how could they listen when they were constantly speaking among themselves in florid­sounding phrases, rococo consonants, rich, rhyming vowels?

which influence does alvarez write about in this passage?

a. popular culture
b. her culture
c. her friends
d. her neighbors

Read this passage: there were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt. "am i less sensitive than i used to be, then? ", he thought, and was already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the newspaper. quickly one after another, his eyes watering with pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them because he couldn't stand the smell. kafka, the metamorphosis (david wyllie, trans.) what can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he enjoys disturbing his family by making a lot of noise. b. he is upset at being locked in the room and tries to escape. c. he is becoming less human and more like a bug. d. he is depressed and is trying to hurt himself.

Which modifier could be used to make a comparison? first identical entirely talented

Iback to my office after i saw the rain.