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But the spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination. At first she didn't want to and then she couldn't seem to write that speech. She should have thought of it as "a great honor," as her father called it. But she was mortified. She still had a slight accent, and she did not like to speak in public, subjecting herself to her classmates' ridicule. It also took no great figuring to see that to deliver a eulogy for a convent full of crazy, old, overweight nuns was no way to endear herself to her peers.

Read the passage about Yoyo. In two to three sentences, explain how language reveals a conflict she experiences.

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Because Yoyo’s first language is not English, she has a unique accent. The other girls at school make fun of her because her speech sounds different than theirs. Yoyo is afraid to stand up in front of her classmates and give a speech because they might make fun of her.

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yoyo’s first language that she knows is clearly not english, she has a strong accent depending on some words. Other boys and girls at school make fun of her because the way she talks sounds different than theirs. yoyo is afraid and scared to stand up in front of her classmates and give her classmates a speech because they might make fun of her.

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