Esquivel knows the story of maiz is a myth, so why does she warn her daughter not to step on a kernel of corn?

Because she wants to maintain the cultural tradition of her people.

Explanation:

Esquivel's family taught her that the corn was sacred, it represented fertility, so she should not step on the corn kernels. While she was a child, she did not really step on it, but by the time she reached adulthood she understood that it was a myth and there was no problem stepping on the corn kernels. However, she tells the same myth to her daughter and tells the little girl not to step on the corn kernels. Esquivel does this to maintain the cultural traditions of the family.

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.  

answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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