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Julia Alvarez is an American author. Born in New York in 1950 she spent her childhood in the Dominican Republic until age 10. In this passage. Alvarez describes some of her earliest writing experiences. from Something to Declare 1 Away at school, I met American muses, who like my aunt Titi, were handmaidens of the written word. Miss St. Pierre and Miss Stevenson, my English teachers, were both single, both young, both passionately in love with books. 2 They encouraged me, not just to receive the language passively, but to actively engage it. In other words, not just to read, but to write. I wrote essays. poems, stories. I kept a journal. For my senior project. I put together a handwritten manuscript of poems and drawings, and with Miss St. Pierre's blessing. I carried it to a New York publisher when I was home for vacation.The editor, Gene Young, was actually a friend of my aunt Titi's who had been to boarding school with her.Gene very nicely offered to read the manuscript and then took me on a tour of the Harper & Row building introducing me to her coworkers as "a talented young poet."I glowed with pride-though it did occur to me that she had not, as yet-read any of my poems.Oh well, maybe editors could tell ahead of time that someone was going to be a good writer? The book, titled Thoughts dealt with important, well, thoughts: Death Loneliness. the Meaning of Life Nowhere was there a trace of Belkis, Ada, Gladys.or any of my Dominican tias-3 good sign. I thought, that I sounded "so American." A few weeks after my visit to Harper 8 Row, my handwritten book was returned in the mail with a nice note from Gene advising me to "keep writing, you'll find your voice." 3 This discovery of a voice did not come easily. I was in school before women's studies or multicultural studies or anything but the CANON became the norm. We read the great writers. Yeats Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Whitman, with a sprinkling of female exceptions, I do not regret having had these models. They taught me my craft: they forced me to go outside my own experience and background. But it was difficult to find or trust my own voice using only these male models. 4 I can still remember the first time I heard my own voice on paper, it happened a few years after I graduated from a creative writing master's had earned a short-term residencv at Yaddo. the writer's colonv What is the most likely reason the author quotes the work of other poets in paragraph 5 and her own work in paragraph 7? 1. to emphasize her classical training in literature 2.to reveal how other poets have influenced her voice 3. to suggest that all poets are inspired by deeply personal events 4. to contrast the rhythm and style of her poetry with that of other poets

Julia Alvarez is an American author. Born in New York in 1950 she spent her childhood in the Dominican Republic until age 10. In this passage. Alvarez describes some of her earliest writing experiences. from Something to Declare 1 Away at school, I met American muses, who like my aunt Titi, were handmaidens of the written word. Miss St. Pierre and Miss Stevenson, my English teachers, were both single, both young, both passionately in love with books. 2 They encouraged me, not just to receive the language passively, but to actively engage it. In other words, not just to read, but to write. I wrote essays. poems, stories. I kept a journal. For my senior project. I put together a handwritten manuscript of poems and drawings, and with Miss St. Pierre's blessing. I carried it to a New York publisher when I was home for vacation.The editor, Gene Young, was actually a friend of my aunt Titi's who had been to boarding school with her.Gene very nicely offered to read the manuscript and then took me on a tour of the Harper & Row building introducing me to her coworkers as "a talented young poet."I glowed with pride-though it did occur to me that she had not, as yet-read any of my poems.Oh well, maybe editors could tell ahead of time that someone was going to be a good writer? The book, titled Thoughts dealt with important, well, thoughts: Death Loneliness. the Meaning of Life Nowhere was there a trace of Belkis, Ada, Gladys.or any of my Dominican tias-3 good sign. I thought, that I sounded "so American." A few weeks after my visit to Harper 8 Row, my handwritten book was returned in the mail with a nice note from Gene advising me to "keep writing, you'll find your voice." 3 This discovery of a voice did not come easily. I was in school before women's studies or multicultural studies or anything but the CANON became the norm. We read the great writers. Yeats Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Whitman, with a sprinkling of female exceptions, I do not regret having had these models. They taught me my craft: they forced me to go outside my own experience and background. But it was difficult to find or trust my own voice using only these male models. 4 I can still remember the first time I heard my own voice on paper, it happened a few years after I graduated from a creative writing master's had earned a short-term residencv at Yaddo. the writer's colonv What is the most likely reason the author quotes the work of other poets in paragraph 5 and her own work in paragraph 7? 1. to emphasize her classical training in literature 2.to reveal how other poets have influenced her voice 3. to suggest that all poets are inspired by deeply personal events 4. to contrast the rhythm and style of her poetry with that of other poets
Julia Alvarez is an American author. Born in New York in 1950 she spent her childhood in the Dominican Republic until age 10. In this passage. Alvarez describes some of her earliest writing experiences. from Something to Declare 1 Away at school, I met American muses, who like my aunt Titi, were handmaidens of the written word. Miss St. Pierre and Miss Stevenson, my English teachers, were both single, both young, both passionately in love with books. 2 They encouraged me, not just to receive the language passively, but to actively engage it. In other words, not just to read, but to write. I wrote essays. poems, stories. I kept a journal. For my senior project. I put together a handwritten manuscript of poems and drawings, and with Miss St. Pierre's blessing. I carried it to a New York publisher when I was home for vacation.The editor, Gene Young, was actually a friend of my aunt Titi's who had been to boarding school with her.Gene very nicely offered to read the manuscript and then took me on a tour of the Harper & Row building introducing me to her coworkers as "a talented young poet."I glowed with pride-though it did occur to me that she had not, as yet-read any of my poems.Oh well, maybe editors could tell ahead of time that someone was going to be a good writer? The book, titled Thoughts dealt with important, well, thoughts: Death Loneliness. the Meaning of Life Nowhere was there a trace of Belkis, Ada, Gladys.or any of my Dominican tias-3 good sign. I thought, that I sounded "so American." A few weeks after my visit to Harper 8 Row, my handwritten book was returned in the mail with a nice note from Gene advising me to "keep writing, you'll find your voice." 3 This discovery of a voice did not come easily. I was in school before women's studies or multicultural studies or anything but the CANON became the norm. We read the great writers. Yeats Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Whitman, with a sprinkling of female exceptions, I do not regret having had these models. They taught me my craft: they forced me to go outside my own experience and background. But it was difficult to find or trust my own voice using only these male models. 4 I can still remember the first time I heard my own voice on paper, it happened a few years after I graduated from a creative writing master's had earned a short-term residencv at Yaddo. the writer's colonv What is the most likely reason the author quotes the work of other poets in paragraph 5 and her own work in paragraph 7? 1. to emphasize her classical training in literature 2.to reveal how other poets have influenced her voice 3. to suggest that all poets are inspired by deeply personal events 4. to contrast the rhythm and style of her poetry with that of other poets

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2. to reveal how other poets have influenced her voice Explanation The passage discusses Alvarez's journey to finding her own voice, influenced by classical training and male literary models. Quoting other poets and her own work likely highlights how these influences shaped her voice and writing style.

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The passage discusses Alvarez's journey to finding her own voice, influenced by classical training and male literary models. Quoting other poets and her own work likely highlights how these influences shaped her voice and writing style.<br /><br />
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