Read the passage from the poem "El Olvido" by Julia Ortiz Cofer.dangerousto disdain the plaster saintsbefore which your mother kneelspraying with embarrassing fervorthat you survive in the place you have chosen to live:a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls,a forgetting place where she fears you will dieof loneliness and exposure.What imagery in this passage creates a visual of the speaker’s heritage?
Answer
A
“loneliness and exposure”
B
“plaster saints,” “mother kneels praying”
C
“the place you have chosen to live,” “a forgetting place”
D
“a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls”
Explanation
The references to “plaster saints” and the speaker’s mother kneeling in prayer create a visual of religious traditions passed down through the speaker’s heritage. The bare, cold room instead describes the speaker’s chosen living place, not the heritage itself.
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