How do the short sentences and the punctuation affect
the tone of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rosa" by Rita Dove.
Doing nothing was the doing:
the clean flame of her gaze
carved by a camera flash.
How she stood up
when they bent down to retrieve
her purse. That courtesy.
O They emphasize the speaker's admiration for her
subject.
They demonstrate the speaker's confusion over the
situation.
They reinforce the speaker's presentation of historical
events.
O They reveal the speaker's relationship to the main
topic.