Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”

My friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. He took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of Spanish, English, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. In other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry.

Which best explains how Anaya’s word choice establishes his voice in the excerpt?
Anaya compares “tortillas” to “the soul” of a Mexican-American writer, demonstrating the ability of these writers to combine Spanish and English in their writing.
Anaya compares “tortillas” to “the soul” of a Mexican-American writer, emphasizing his belief that writers must be allowed to express their culture and heritage.
Anaya compares “tortillas” to “the soul” of a Mexican-American writer to persuade people to read more literature by writers that come from mixed heritages and diverse cultures.
Anaya compares “tortillas” to “the soul” of a Mexican-American writer to express his opinion that only those writers who exist outside of the mainstream are worthy of an audience.

Correct the sentence by selecting the proper pronoun usage. they assigned the solo parts to ellen and her themselves. she themselves her theirselves she herself correct as is

It's to know your purpose before you read something because a purpose can:

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification