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RCMultiple Choice

Creating a Text Trailer — Cumulative exam

Question 5 • CR01003B English 3

Read the poem "The Snake" by Emily Dickinson.A narrow fellow in the grassOccasionally rides;You may have met him, — did you not,His notice sudden is.The grass divides as with a comb,A spotted shaft is seen;And then it closes at your feetAnd opens further on.He likes a boggy acre,A floor too cool for corn.Yet when a child, and barefoot,I more than once, at morn,Have passed, I thought, a whip-lashUnbraiding in the sun, —When, stooping to secure it,It wrinkled, and was gone.Several of nature's peopleI know, and they know me;I feel for them a transportOf cordiality;But never met this fellow,Attended or alone,Without a tighter breathing,And zero at the bone.Which statement best describes Dickinson’s use of figurative language in the final stanza?

Answer
A
She uses comparisons to show the speaker’s connection to the snake .
B
She uses a simile to show that snakes are harmless creatures .
C
She uses a metaphor to describe the movement of the snake.
D
She uses exaggeration to emphasize the speaker’s fear of snakes.
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