Read this excerpt from Margaret Frink's Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-seekers:Here we again heard alarming and discouraging accounts of deeds of violence and bloodshed that had recently been committed on the plains, along the route that we were very soon to travel over.Which statement best describes the effect of word choice on the tone of the excerpt?A.Words like "deeds" and "committed" give the excerpt a threatening tone.B.Words like "alarming" and "violence" give the excerpt a sinister tone.C.Words like "again" and "soon" give the excerpt an expectant tone.D.Works like "discouraging" and "bloodshed" give the excerpt a depressed tone.

The tone of the passage can be best described as A. playful. B. hopeful. C. frightful. D. remorseful.

Which term best describes the author's tone in paragraph 8?A. soberB. passionateC. flatteringD. mocking

Which tone best matches the historical sections of The Way to Rainy Mountain?A.Angry and criticalB.Lofty and celebratoryC.Factual and detachedD.Imaginative and descriptive

Read this excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath:The movement changed them; the highways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger and the hunger itself, changed them. The children without dinner changed them, the endless moving changed them.Which best describes the tone of this excerpt?A.SympatheticB.HopefulC.UncaringD.Syntactical

Montaigne employs harsh, selective vocabulary to spark reader outrage and to make his audience analyze their own culture. Which of the following phrases are examples of his thought-provoking tone? Select all that apply.“it represents instead an extreme form of vengeance”“we have entirely stifled her [Mother Nature]”“quite close to their original naïvet锓we have bastardized them”