What tone do these sentences from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech create?It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.A.ModestB.ArrogantC.ConfusingD.Silly

Which words in the passage from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech best contribute to his modest tone?It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.A.profound, meB.choice, senseC.accept, pleasesD.humility, bestow

Which excerpt from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech best shows his modest tone?A.I remember: he asked his father: "Can this be true?" This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages.B.It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.C.No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.D.And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices

The speaker's tone is mostly —A. hopeful.B. humble.C. insistent.D. regretful.

arrogant is to modest as feeble is to

What tone does Martin Luther King, Jr. create through his choice of words in the following portion of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech?I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice, I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice. I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death. I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered. And only yesterday more than 40 houses of worship in the State of Mississippi alone were bombed or burned because they offered a sanctuary to those who would not accept segregation. I am mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts my people and chains them to the lowest rung of the economic ladder.A.ExcitedB.QuestioningC.PlayfulD.SeriousSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS