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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Jasper Pierce

6 September, 14:47

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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Bryce Daugherty · Answer 1

The best answer for this question would be:

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.