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read the excerpt from the poem "barbara frietchie.”

under his slouched hat left and right
he glanced: the old flag met his sight.

"halt! ”— the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
"fire! ”— out blazed the rifle-blast.

what is the significance of the exclamations "halt! ” and "fire! ”?

they foreshadow what will happen next.
they move the action forward with dialogue.
they stop the movement of the poem.
they describe the sound of jackson's voice.

Answer:

The significance of the exclamations "Halt!” and "Fire!” in the excerpt taken from the poem “Barbara Frietchie” is that they describe the sound of Jackson's voice. The correct option is Option D.

Explanation:

These lines are taken from John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Frietchie.” The poet offers a tribute to the patriotism of an elderly woman through his twenty couplet narrative poem. Based on the reports from newspapers that he considered trustworthy sources he had created this poem.

Barbara Frietchie, the Union's ninety-year-old patriot had retrieved the Union flag which the Confederates had destroyed. For the colonizing huge crowd of insurgents, she had exhibited the flag in her basement window to see that the town had at least one person still faithful to the motive of the Union. So forty troops who had been marching past her house led by Stonewall Jackson saw the flag and on Jackson’s command stopped and fired at the banner.