Question

Read the excerpt from "Fish Cheeks." On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: A slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. A bowl soaking dried fungus back to life. A plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires. What is the effect of the imagery in this passage? It makes the food seem like something that should not be eaten. It shows how hard the mother works to please her family. It gives important information about Chinese culture. It shows how complicated it is to cook Chinese meals.

Answer 1

A. It makes the food seem like something that should not be eaten.

The things to look at in determining the appropriate response for this question are the adjectives. Let’s take a look at the adjectives used within this excerpt to describe things: “strange,” “littered,” “appalling mounds,” “slimy,” “rubbery,” and even knife markings that resembled bicycle tires. These are descriptions that one would not generally use to describe anything worthy of ingestion. As such, the imagery within this excerpt certainly makes the food seem like something that should not be eaten.

Answer 2

The effect of the imagery in this passage is:

• A. It makes the food seem like something that should not be eaten.

According to the given excerpt, we can see that there is a narration about the Christmas Eve dinner between a family and how the mother of the narrator had made a strange menu.

As a result of this, we can see that the narrator further describes the state of the kitchen as it was littered with raw food and slimy rock cod and the use of imagery to make the readers see the effects of the food make it seem like it should not be eaten.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A

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