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Choose the words or phrases that provide imagery and a sensory experience for the reader It was December a bright frozen day in the early morning Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag coming along a path through the pinewoods Her name was Phoenix Jackson She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows moving a little from side to side in her steps with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock She carried a thin small cane made from an umbrella and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her This made a grave and persistent noise in the still air that seemed meditative like the chirping of a solitary little bird O in front of her made a grave meditative and slowly Phoenix pine a little steps kept persistent sill and air country woman head very and walked frozen red old small grandfather clock tapping chirping and bird