Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of the narrative. Read this excerpt from "Goodbye to All That" by Joan Didion.

Part of what I want to tell you is what it is like to be young in New York, how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots—the Seagram Building fountains dissolve into snowflakes, I enter a revolving door at twenty and come out a good deal older, and on a different street.

How does Joan Didion's extended metaphor of comparing her time in New York to a movie affect the tone of this excerpt?

It creates a flippant, glib tone so Didion can convey how superficial and thoughtless she was when she lived in New York.
It creates a romantic, reverential tone as Didion describes snapshots of her greatest triumphs in New York.
It creates a frank, objective tone as Didion focuses on her flaws and the failures she endured while in New York.
It creates a nostalgic, meditative tone as Didion reflects on how quickly her time in New York seemed to pass.

It creates a nostalgic, meditative tone as Didion reflects on how quickly her time in New York seemed to pass.

Explanation:

Joan Didion's narrative essay "Goodbye to All That" revolves around the time the writer lived in New York and how it was the beginning and end of her life. The essay provides insight and a personal take on her relationship with a city, the city of New York.

In the given excerpt from the essay, Joan recalls how "six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve". She admits her time there was like a movie in one go: "I enter a revolving door at twenty and come out a good deal older, and on a different street." Through this metaphor of a revolving door, and the extended metaphor of her time in New York to a movie creates a nostalgic yet meditative tone to how her time in the city passed so quickly.

Thus, the correct answer is the fourth option.



question

discuss the two key differences between the prose form of sojourner truth’s speech and the poetic version. use evidence from both texts to support your response.

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.