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When doing a close reading, what is involved in the process of annotating a text?

Which pair of words has similar denotation but different connotations?

Read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath: snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking theirsnouts into it, straight down the country, across thecountry through fences, through dooryards, and in and outof gullies in straight lineswhich best describes the tone in this passage