If this article had a heading for a section entitled Ridiculously Unrealistic Moments in Shakespeare's Early Tragedies, what
could you expect to see in that section?
A)
a list of all the funniest lines and moments that
Shakespeare wrote
B)
interviews with directors on some of the difficulties
of producing Shakespeare today
C)
a critique of how Shakespeare's tragedies are
currently taught in high schools across America
a discussion of some absurd and unbelievable
moments in a few of Shakespeare's early tragedies
D)

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.