quiencenera
“What shocked me that midnight was that I heard my own voice loud and clear,” Julia Alvarez mentioned. Julia Alvarez remembers the hard work and the amount of time spent in planning her quinceanera, just as if occurred yesterday. Alvarez illustrates her emotions and feeling through this outstanding poem. Starting with the title, “Quinceanera,” a reader can detect hidden meanings. In the Spanish language, the word quinceanera means that a new voice will be heard as a girl becomes of age, a fifteen-year-old girl’s coming out party in Latin cultures. In the poem “Quinceanera,” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, she tells the story of when she turned fifteen. Cofer demonstrates the tone of the poem very well. The denotation of tone states that one conveys an attitude toward the person addressed, however the attitude is clear to the reader. For e
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Approximate Word count = 594
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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