This modern version of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood addresses different social issues.
One of these issues is:
Titles of books might help readers create images in their minds.
The title of Angelou’s book which contains an image that relates directly to confinement is:
Maya Angelou’s strategy to deal with racial injustice in America was to call it by its right name (l. 13-14).
The action that best shows her adoption of such strategy is:
In the text, there are euphemisms to refer to Maya Angelou’s death.
The words used by the author that represent euphemisms are:
Maya Angelou was a writer of both poetry and prose.
According to the text, she wrote the following types of prose:
I loved and admired Angelou, (l. 9)
The fragment above hints at the purpose of the text, which is an exemplar of genre known as eulogy.
The purpose of this genre can be described as:
Writers of memoirs and life stories never lack an audience. People are interested in the actual lives of others (l. 34-35)
The semantic relationship between the two sentences above can be made explicit by the additon of following connective:
Before the difference between autofiction and autobiography is presented, an important concept for the understanding of such distinction is introduced in the text.
This concept is the one of:
In the second paragraph, the author of the text cites E. Stuart Bates, who defines the term autobiography. Another writer, Philippe Lejeune, criticizes this definition and proposes a new one.
The characteristic present in Lejeune’s definition that justifies his criticism is:
