Read this excerpt from Frida Kahlo by Hedda Garza.
Aside from the caricatures she had scribbled in school and the drawings for Fernando Fernández, Kahlo had never paid much attention to art. She began teaching herself from art books, studying the works of the Italian Renaissance artists and experimenting with the colors in her father's paint box. She painted portraits of visitors and relatives who were willing to sit and pose for her and gave the paintings away as gifts.

Garza's purpose is
to entertain young children with Frida Kahlo's adventures; her tone is informal.
to inform a general audience about Frida Kahlo's life and art; her tone is formal.
to persuade art buyers to collect Frida Kahlo's paintings; her tone is informal.
to inform art professors about Frida Kahlo's technique; her tone is formal.

Complete the sentence. when trying to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word, you should first replace the unfamiliar word with a synonym that you identified based on the context clues. remove the unfamiliar word from the sentence. think of an antonym for the unfamiliar word. look for context clues that indicate the word's meaning.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.

Which statement best describes a difference between the poem "ellis island" and the essay ": a native american view"? the poem discusses difficulties encountered by europeans, but the essay does not. the essay discusses the identity of the author, but the poem does not. the poem discusses immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but the essay does not. the essay discusses hopes for america, but the poem does not.