Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.

Describing her feelings right after her first kiss in "First Love," Judith Ortiz Cofer writes, "My cells were tuning up like musicians in an orchestra, and my heart was a chorus. It was an opera I was composing,..."

How does the colorful figure of speech in this sentence affect the text?


A.) It reminds the reader that music can be as beautiful as love.

B.) It highlights the fact that Judith has always been a music lover.

C.) It helps the reader feel the joy of love along with Judith.

D.) It shows that Judith is thinking about herself, not about the boy.

Answer 1

The right answer is C). Judith describes her feelings of the job of love and tries to make the reader feel the same.

Answer 2

Here the figure of speech is being utilized to elicit in the reader the feelings of joy that Judith experiences when she feels loved by this young man whom she had though impossible to reach. All the time she had felt that she was invisible to him, and she felt awkward with her poorly sawn toga, and therefore she believed that there was no way that she would ever attract his attention; yet there he was, surprising her with an embrace and a kiss.