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Ay, Yoyo, you are going to be the one to bring our name to the headlights in this country! That is a beautiful, beautiful speech I want for your father to hear it before he goes to sleep. Then I will type it for you, all right?" –“Daughter of Invention,” Julia Alvarez In this passage, the mother tries to use an English idiom about having one’s name in lights, which means to be famous. Instead, she says that Yoyo will bring their name “to the headlights in this country.” What does the mother’s language reveal? What does the mother mean to express about her daughter Yoyo?

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She is eager to try English phrases.

She is proud and anticipates success

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