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Well if I had to guess, first of all I would say that there wouldn't be any food for the hungry snakes or spiders, so usually the snakes would die, be dead, or just eat the spiders that are there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s because the pronunciation is technically a ‘y’ sound, and even though y is sometimes considered a vowel, ‘an’ is not used in front of words that start with the ‘y’ sound.
<span>Read the Aesop's fable of The Wolf and the Lamb from this famous book. ... "There's my supper," thought he, "if only I can find some excuse to seize it." Then he ...</span><span>
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I believe that the first and last paragraphs are realism because of their cynical descriptions of harsh things, and the middle two are romanticism because of their embellished/elegant descriptions.