How do the slight variations in the final lines of stanzas 3 and 5—the use of the quotation marks and the addition of the exclamation point-—most affect the poem’s impact?
go down, moses

"go down moses" is a negro spiritual that references the old testament and the events of exodus.

go down, moses,

way down in egypt land

tell old pharaoh

to let my people go.

when israel was in egypt land

let my people go

oppressed so hard they could not stand

let my people go.

go down, moses,

way down in egypt land

tell old pharaoh

“let my people go.”

“thus saith the lord,” bold moses said,

“let my people go;

if not i’ll smite your first-born dead,

let my people go.”

go down, moses,

way down in egypt land,

tell old pharaoh

“let my people go! ”

a. they make it sound increasingly submissive.

b. they make it sound increasingly hopeful.

c. they make it sound increasingly forceful.

d. they make it sound increasingly worried.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.