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Read the passage from "Optimism.”

With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope. Darkness cannot shut me in again. I have had a glimpse of the shore, and can now live by the hope of reaching it.

Keller provides a(n)
for the reader by presenting a real-life scenario to provide evidence for her claim.

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Keller uses a brief personal story — her first meaningful word and the hope it brought — as real-life evidence to support her claim about optimism.