WILL GIVE BRAINLIST FOR THE BEST ANSWER What do you infer about the speaker’s state of mind in the opening stanza? What are some words that clue you in?

How does Etheridge’s use of anaphora (repetition at the beginnings of lines) affect her message? What feeling does this repetition develop?

What might Etheridge mean by the lines "Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth / To listen to an inconvenient truth" (lines 22-23)? What is the impact of these lines? How do they connect to her overall message?

BASED ON I NEED TO WAKE UP SONG

the answer is choose a career that she wants to pursue.

I would say the answer is b. sherry turned the dial on the furnace.

"the way that someone sees or thinks about things" is the correct answer.

Explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.