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Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." The New York of my children is no more Balkanized, probably less so, than the Philadelphia of my father, in which Jewish boys would walk several blocks out of their way to avoid the Irish divide of Chester Avenue. (I was the product of a mixed marriage, across barely bridgeable lines: an Italian girl, an Irish boy. How quaint it seems now, how incendiary then.) The Brooklyn of Francie Nolan's famous tree, the Newark of which Portnoy complained, even the uninflected WASP suburbs of Cheever's characters: they are ghettos, pure and simple. Do the Cambodians and the Mexicans in California coexist less easily today than did the Irish and Italians of Massachusetts a century ago? You know the answer. What technique does Quindlen use to support the idea that America is less polarized now than it was in past history? facts and statistics neutral language quotations from other people vivid imagery

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Vivid Imagery

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Vivid imagery

The answer choices about facts and statistics and quotations should immediately be eliminated. There are no statistics or quotations anywhere in the excerpt. The speaker does not use neutral language when he says words like quaint, incendiary, and uninflected. All of these carry an opinion. Vivid imagery is correct because of the way he talks about the different groups and their locations.

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