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Read the excerpt from “Speaking Arabic.”

At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, “I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely for one.” And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head.

Which best explains how Nye’s word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt?

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Nye creates a powerful image of trees to support her opinion that living among a variety of cultures is an American heritage.

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