“The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts.”By Maxine Hong Kingston 1. Why do you think Kingston starts her essay with this story about how her mother cut her
frenum underneath her tongue?

2. How is Kingston using the word tongue — literally, figuratively (as a metaphor for speech and expression), or both? What effect does this have?

3. Where is this "ghost country," and what information can we infer from this single line of dialogue?

4.How does Kingston describe her relationship with English?

5.What other groups of students does Kingston say she identified with at school, and how did she get along with each?

6.How does Kingston describe the internal struggle she experienced when trying to read aloud? How did the teacher seem to interpret her struggle, and was the teacher's reaction helpful?

7.How does Kingston use figurative language to describe what speaking felt like for her and her sister? Why do you think she does this?

Read the excerpt from queen elizabeth's address to the troops at tilbury. let tyrants fear, i have always so behaved myself, that, under god, i have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects, and therefore i am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die among you all, to lay down for my god, and for my kingdoms, and for my people, my honour, and my blood, even in the dust. which statement best describes queen elizabeth's use of rhetorical appeals in this excerpt? she relies on ethos by explaining that she has previous experience fighting in battles. she relies on pathos by providing examples of other successes she has had as a ruler. she relies on ethos by establishing that she is there for more than just recreation. she relies on pathos by using emotionally charged words to motivate the troops.

200 words discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?

Briefly describe your ideas about elisa's connection to both the ranch or garden and the road setting of the story