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Read the poem "The Snake" by Emily Dickinson.

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 child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,

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.

Which statement best describes Dickinson’s use of figurative language in the final stanza?

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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Answer: C

Explanation: There is a metaphor used which is figurative language.

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