Read the excerpt from the poem "barbara frietchie.” up rose old barbara frietchie then, bowed with her fourscore years and ten; bravest of all in frederick town, she took up the flag the men hauled down; how do the rhyming couplets move the action forward? by including descriptive details about setting by connecting important plot points  by illustrating the author's purpose by using the same number of syllables

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”