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Question 30 • Literature and Composition I

Read the excerpt from "VI" by Emily Dickinson. "If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly." Why did the author most likely choose the imagery of brushing away a fly?

Answer
A
to show the speaker cleaning her house
B
to emphasize how quickly time would pass
C
to suggest the speaker is annoyed
D
to help readers picture the setting
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