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But when a Boy, and Barefoot I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun The speaker of this poem is_____________?

Correct answer: A. A boy

A. A boy
B. An alien
C. A girl
D. A communist

Explanation

The speaker recalls being barefoot as a boy when he encountered the snake in Emily Dickinson’s “A narrow Fellow in the Grass.” The capitalized “Boy” is a direct clue, while the other choices have no textual basis.

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