.(excerpt from) The Creation James Weldon Johnson AND God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, “I’m lonely— I’ll make me a world.” And far as the eye of God could see5 Darkn

.(excerpt from) The Creation

James Weldon Johnson

AND God stepped out on space,

And He looked around and said,

“I’m lonely—

I’ll make me a world.”

And far as the eye of God could see5

Darkness covered everything,

Blacker than a hundred midnights

Down in a cypress swamp.

Then God smiled,

And the light broke,10

And the darkness rolled up on one side,

And the light stood shining on the other,

And God said, “That’s good!”

Then God reached out and took the light in His hands,

And God rolled the light around in His hands15

Until He made the sun;

And He set that sun a-blazing in the heavens.

And the light that was left from making the sun

God gathered it up in a shining ball

And flung it against the darkness,20

Spangling the night with the moon and stars.

Then down between

The darkness and the light

He hurled the world;

And God said, “That’s good!”25

Then God himself stepped down—

And the sun was on His right hand,

And the moon was on His left;

The stars were clustered about His head,

And the earth was under His feet.30

And God walked, and where He trod

His footsteps hollowed the valleys ouy

And bulged the mountains up.

Then He stopped and looked and saw

That the earth was hot and barren.35

So God stepped over to the edge of the world

And He spat out the seven seas;

He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed;

He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled;

And the waters above the earth came down,40

The cooling waters came down.

Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:

22)

The speaker presents God's creations primarily through

A) foreshadowing to prepare readers for each miraculous component.

B) sequential narration propelled by conjunctions and transitions.

C) fragmented dialogue and informal word choices to establish familiarity.

D) descriptions of each spiritual element in order to evoke awe and intrigue.