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What effect does the use of mixed Spanish and English have in this excerpt from "Freeway 280" by Lorna Dee Cervantes? Albaricosqueros cerezos, nogales... Viejitas come here with paper bags to gather greens. Espinaca, verdolagas, yerbabuena...

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Answer: A. The mixed language celebrates the poets by cultural and bilingual identity.

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D- the mixed language conveys the poet rejection of her american identitly

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