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Read this excerpt from "A 400-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer and Her Work by Bharati Mukherjee and answer the question. Yet my imaginative home is also in the tales told by my mother and grandmother. … For all the hope and energy I have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation – I’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now I’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels – there are parts of me that remain Indian.

What words in the above excerpt demonstrate humor in satire?

"I’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now I’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels."
"– there are parts of me that remain Indian."
"Yet my imaginative home is also in the tales told by my mother and grandmother. "
"For all the hope and energy I have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation ..."

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