In Sherman Alexie's poem "The Summer of Black Widows," the spiders that seem to plague the neighborhood one summer are described as stories. How do readers know that the poem's speaker is still talking about spiders, throughout the poem? The poem has a refrain that repeats this fact over and over.
The speaker directly reminds readers of the connection in each stanza.
The spiders behave like storytellers in the speaker's dreams.
The "stories" are found in ways that spiders are usually found.