Reread the lines 5 - 8 of "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Then answer the mutiple choice questions that follow.
From "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
5: How dreary - to be - Somebody!
6: How public - like a Frog -
7: To tell one's name - the livelong June -
8: To an admiring Bog!
1. The word Somebody is capitalized in the poem because -
A: it is the proper pronoun
B: it is the proper name of a character in the poem.
C: it conveys an idea of being well known.
D. the poet does not know how to capitalize properly.
2. The dashes mainly affect the poem by -
A: acting like periods to indicate the end of a thought.
B: breaking the flow of language so the poem is easier to read.
C: dividing the lines into section that have the same meter.
D: emphasizing the humorous connections Dickinson makes.
