Question

"Sticks and stones don't break bones," she chanted. Yoyo could tell, though, by the look on her face, it was as if one of those stones the kids had aimed at her daughters had hit her. But she always pretended they were at fault. "What did you do to provoke them? It takes two to tangle, you know."

In this excerpt, the uniqueness of Laura’s speech is revealed by her
1) grammar
2) rhyming words
3)wordiness
4) word usage

Answer 1

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by your question is the first choice.

The meaning of the underlined idiom in the excerpt is "People should not criticize others if they have similar problems."

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Answer 2

The correct answer is D) word usage.

The uniqueness of Laura’s speech in this excerpt is revealed by her word usage.

We are talking about the story "Daughters of Invention," written by Julia Álvarez, a Dominican Republic novelist, based in the United States. In the mentioned story, Álvarez refers to the life of her family as immigrants in the United States, and the difficulties they lived to understand and assimilate a different culture and combine it with their own culture and traditions.

Julia Alvarez is a famous Latino writer who had written other successful books such as "In the Time of the Butterflies," and "Yo!"