1.By using context clues, choose the correct meaning of the highlighted words in this passage from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl." "He was especially hard on my mother, criticizing her, often cruelly, for her pidgin speech--smatterings of Chinese scattered like chop suey in her conversation."

2."The language was a source of embarrassment. More times than not, I had tried to disassociate myself from the nagging loud voice that followed me wherever I wandered in the nearby American supermarket outside Chinatown."

This passage from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl," is an example of which of the following?

Question

1.By using context clues, choose the correct meaning of the highlighted words in this passage from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl."   "He was especially hard on my mother, criticizing her, often cruelly, for her pidgin speech--smatterings of Chinese scattered like chop suey in her conversation."

2."The language was a source of embarrassment. More times than not, I had tried to disassociate myself from the nagging loud voice that followed me wherever I wandered in the nearby American supermarket outside Chinatown."

This passage from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl," is an example of which of the following?