10 facts about Elizabeth Acevedo

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Poet, novelist, and National Poetry Slam Champion, Elizabeth Acevedo was born and raised in New York City, the only daughter of Dominican immigrants. Her poetry is infused with Dominican bolero and her beloved city's tough grit

#1 She is the author of The Poet X and With the Fire on High.

#2 She lives in Washington DC.

#3 She started writing at the age of 8.

#4 She went to University of Maryland.

#5 In 2022, Acevedo became the Young People's Poet Laureate.

#6 She continued on to teach eighth grade English in Prince George's County, Maryland.

#7 She was born and raised in New York.

#8 She was the only daughter of Dominican immigrants.

#9 Her first book was The Poet X.

#10 She is 34 years old.

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Question 8 of 10
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C. time
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Simile
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Metaphor
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Select and use evidence to develop and support your line of reasoning.
Explain the relationship between the evidence and your thesis.


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Cat's Eye
A Clockwork Orange
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Frankenstein
Gone Girl
The Good Soldier
The Great Gatsby
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Kindred
Middle Passage
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Salvage the Bones
The Sound and the Fury
Swing Time
The Tempest
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The Turn of the Screw
Vanity Fair
Villette
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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B)
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C)
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