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Read the excerpt from "Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This
is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in that
gate—once the crying of confusion stopped—seemed apprehensive about
any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too.
(Naomi Shihab Nye, "Gate A-4" from Honeybee. Copyright © 2008 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted with permission. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
Which graphical element does the poet use in this excerpt?
word positions
center justification
capital letters
short lines
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Short lines.
The poet breaks the text into brief lines (line breaks) to control pacing and emphasize phrases (e.g., isolating "This" at a line end).
The poet breaks the text into brief lines (line breaks) to control pacing and emphasize phrases (e.g., isolating "This" at a line end).
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