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The following text is from a literary analysis of the poet Emily Dickinson. Dickinson's poems are famous for their dashes and their mid-line capitals, marks that many early editors quietly 'corrected' into standard nineteenth-century punctuation before printing them. Contemporary scholars who work from her manuscripts reject that treatment. The marks, they observe, fall where a reader's breath and emphasis shift, and they fall there with a regularity too exact to be the residue of a hurried hand. Dickinson's punctuation, on this reading, is not ____. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- expressive
- redundant
- accidental
- archaic
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