Read the excerpt from amy tan’s essay “mother tongue.”

i know this for a fact, because when i was growing up, my mother’s “limited” english limited my perception of her. i was ashamed of her english. i believed that her english reflected the quality of what she had to say. that is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect.

what is the purpose of this text?

a) to inform readers based on tan’s childhood experience
b) to persuade readers to speak a different way
c) to inform readers of tan’s mother’s feelings
d) to persuade readers that tan’s mother is intelligent

A) to inform readers based on Tan’s childhood experience.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue" we can see the description of Tan's experiences growing up with a mother that didn't speak perfect English. She says that she was ashamed of her mother's speaking and that she thought that there wasn't much quality in what she wanted to say. The purpose of this excerpt is to inform the reader about the differences of speaking a language imperfectly and having imperfect thoughts, and the author does that based on her childhood experience.

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.