Jack was assigned the following sentence from paragraph five of My Antonia to use as a model of descriptive writing. His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.
Which of Jack's paraphrases most closely retains the meaning and tone of the narrator's reaction to the snake in My
Antonia?
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The snake's close proximity to the narrator created feelings of extreme nausea.
The sudden and sinister appearance of the snake made the narrator quite unsettled.
The substantial mass and rippling strength of the snake made the narrator feel ill.
The narrator's stomach felt queasy once he understood the danger the snake represented.