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Cane is a 1923 novel by jean Toomer. In one portion of the novel, Toomer uses figurative language to connect the narrator's urban environment of Washington, DC, and the rural South of the narrator's past, writing, _____
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Which quotation from Cane most effectively illustrates the claim?
"The [train] engines of this valley have a whistle, the echoes of which sound like iterated gasps and sobs. I always think of them as crude music."
A
"I sang, with a strange quiver in my voice, a promise-song."
B
"The young trees had not outgrown their [planter] boxes then. V Street [in Washington, DC] was lined with them."
C
"And when the wind is from the South, soil of my homeland falls like a fertile shower upon the lean streets of [Washington, DC]."
D