Which excerpt of Maya Angelou's memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an example of dialect?

A.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

B.
Yes, ma'am. Sure do. Store-bought clothes ain't hardly worth thread it take to stitch them.

C.
We lived with our grandmother and uncle in the rear of the Store (it was always spoken of with a capital s), which she had owned some twenty-five years.

D.
Before she had quite arisen, she called our names and issued orders, and pushed her large feet into homemade slippers and across the bare lye-washed floor to light the coal-oil lamp.

B. Yes, ma'am. Sure do. Store-bought clothes ain't hardly worth thread it take to stitch them.

Dialect involves the spelling, sounds, grammar and pronunciation used by a particular group of people. It distinguishes them from other people around them.

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Answer:

Option B. The excerpt from Maya Angelou's memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" that states: "Yes ma'am. Sure Do. Store-bought clothes ain't hardly wort thread t take to stitch them.", is an example of dialect.

Explanation:

The term dialect is used to define a variety of language that by features of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar, that is characteristic of people that live in a specific region or country. Words such as "ma'am" "sure do" and "ain't" are all part of the dialect that, specially, English American speakers use, and it can be even linked to the southern region of the country, in which the majority of its citizens habitually use this contractions and phrases.