Read the poem the snake by emily dickinson

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heres the poem.

a narrow fellow in the grass

occasionally 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 feet

and opens further on--

he likes a boggy acre

a floor too cool for corn--

yet when a boy, and barefoot--

i more than once at noon

have passed, i thought, a whip lash

unbraiding in the sun

when stooping to secure it

it wrinkled, and was gone--

several of nature's people

i know, and they know me--

i feel for them a transport

of cordiality--

but never met this fellow

attended, or alone

without a tighter breathing

and zero at the bone

as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

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