Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative. describing her mother's lack of sewing ability in "first love," judith ortiz cofer writes, "that night i would have traded her for a peasant woman with a golden needle." how does the colorful figure of speech in this sentence affect the text? it shows that wealth was not important to judith. it makes the reader think that judith's hopes are not realistic. it injects the memoir with a fairy-tale atmosphere. it emphasizes that judith's mother did not understand her.

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It injects the memoir with a fairy-tale atmosphere.

The writer describes the sewing ability of the mother by referencing a fairy tale atmosphere from the Sleeping Beauty text perhaps. The interpretation of it seems like that Judith did not appreciate the skill of her mother.

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

she was trying to use   reliable narrator.