Question

Read the passage from the poem "El Olvido" by Julia Ortiz Cofer.
dangerous to disdain the plaster saints before which your mother kneels praying with embarrassing fervor that you survive in the place you have chosen to live: a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls, a forgetting place where she fears you will die of loneliness and exposure.
What imagery in this passage creates a visual of the speaker’s heritage?

A) “loneliness and exposure”
B) “plaster saints,” “mother kneels praying”
C) “the place you have chosen to live,” “a forgetting place”
D)“a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls”

Answer 1

Answer: B) “plaster saints,” “mother kneels praying.”

Explanation: Heritage refers to characteristics, cultural aspects or traditions that are passed down from one generation to the next. In the given passage from the poem "El Olvido" by Julia Ortiz Cofer, we can see that the phrases “plaster saints,” and “mother kneels praying” help to create a visual of the speaker's heritage, because they give the idea of his mother being a religious woman, and probably he is too.

Answer 2

The imagery that creates a visual of the speaker's heritage in the passage is "plaster saints” and “mother kneels praying”, as expressed in option B.

What is visual?

Visual refers to anything that can be seen. Here, we must find the imagery or sensory language that helps readers see or visualize the speaker's heritage in the poem.

Heritage in this case refers to the cultural aspects passed down from generation to generation. In the poem, such heritage refers to the religion and rituals practiced by the speaker's family.

With that in mind, we can select option B as the correct answer. The phrases "plaster saints” and “mother kneels praying” help us visualize the speaker's heritage as we see her mother praying to statues of saints.

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