Read the excerpt from "The Danger of Single Story" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Now, I loved those American and British books I read. They stirred my imagination. They opened up new worlds for me. But the unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story of what books are. How does the phrase "stirred my imagination" affect the meaning of the speech? OIt highlights the amount of time Adichie spent reading. O It describes Adichie's confusion over the books she read in her childhood. It shows Adichie's preference for specific books. It emphasizes the way literature influenced Adichie when she was younger.
