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Brian Doyle, The Greatest Nature Essay Ever

Brian Doyle, The Greatest Nature Essay Ever

Read The Greatest Nature Essay Ever and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. How would the “greatest nature essay ever” begin?

with a picture of a daffodil

with a description of the author’s background

with a quote from Thoreau

with a startling and lovely image

2. What would the story told in the “next two paragraphs” cause the reader to do?

buy only organic food

stop reading immediately and throw the essay in the trash

lie in bed at night thinking about the power of stories

3. What kind of sentences would be used in the paragraphs that “walk inexorably toward a line of explosive Conclusions”?

short, staccato sentences filled with clear, calm statements

run-on sentences that go on for miles

descriptive sentences that tell story after story about monkeys in the Amazon

regular sentences filled with moving sermons and persuasions

4. What image does Doyle use to describe the best nature essay ever?

an arrow

a cannon

a tree trunk

a spatula

5. How would the reader of the best nature essay ever feel at the end of the essay?

changed

filled with deep depression at the state of the world

hyper

shamed