Which statement best states a central idea in the text about children of immigrants? they are pulled between the traditions of their parents' culture and the changes required by a new culture. they must face challenges with their parents because of generational differences. they have to either work hard and succeed or be independent and well-liked. they decide whether to portray stories about growing up as humorous or challenging. part b which detail from the story supports the answer in part a? ji-suk maintains the korean traditions with which her mother raised her. ji-suk makes the food her mother taught her to cook. ji-suk wonders about her son's preference for friends rather than activities. ji-suk thinks of owning the food truck as honoring to her mother and son.

In the following conversation, which group discussion technique does emily most clearly show?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

5. it was "illegal" to aid and comfort a jew in hitler's germany. but i am sure that, if i had lived in germany during that time, i would have aided and comforted my jewish brothers even though it was illegal. • type of figurative language • meaning of figurative language: effect on tone and mood: effect on audience