Read the excerpt from "Rosa” by Rita Dove. Doing nothing was the doing: the clean flame of her gaze carved by a camera flash. How she stood up when they bent down to retrieve her purse. That courtesy. How do the short sentences and the punctuation affect the tone of the excerpt?

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They emphasize the speaker’s admiration for her subject.

Graphical and Structural Elements in Poetry - Quiz Quiz

Read the excerpt from "Rosa” by Rita Dove. Doing nothing was the doing: the clean flame of her gaze carved by a camera flash. How she stood up when they bent down to retrieve her purse. That courtesy. How do the short sentences and the punctuation affect the tone of the excerpt?

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