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1. What is the tone of the following passage? “Jim had plenty of corncob pipes and tobacco; so we had a right down good sociable time, there we crawled out through the hole, and so home to bed, with hands that looked like they’d been cawed. Tom was in high spirits. He said it was the best fun he ever had in his life.” This passage is again simple and easy to understand. a. peculiar b. mysterious c. adventuresome d. benevolent

2. What is the tone of the following passage? • “By and by he rolled out and jumped up to his feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place with a clasp knife, calling me the Angel of death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn’t come for him no more. I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, an roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up.”

3. What is the tone of the following passage? • “They tackled missionarying, and mesmerizing, and doctoring, and telling fortunes, and a little of everything; but they couldn’t seem to have no luck. So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate.”

4. What is the tone of the following passage? • “Jim had plenty of corncob pipes and tobacco; so we had a right down good sociable time, there we crawled out through the hole, and so home to bed, with hands that looked like the’d been cawed. Tom was in high spirits. He said it was the best fun he ever had in his life.”

5. What is the tone of the following passage? • Each time I went into that house I noticed new things. It was a scary place. The walls were lined with shelves crammed with old musty books. On the floor were three rugs with dark, swirly patterns of wild beasts in forests. Two chairs were covered in similar ghastly designs. A sofa was draped in a bear skin.

6. What is the tone of the following passage? • “DID PEEBY’S MOTHER CALL?” GRAM SAID. “Did she come home? Did Peeby phone the police? Oh, I hope this isn’t a sad story.”

7. What is the tone of the following passage? • The reason Gramps cried when he carried Gram into the house was that there, in the center of the bedroom, stood his won parents’ bed – the bed that Gramps and each of his brothers had disappeared to during the wedding supper. They had been moving the bed into Gram and Gramp’s new house.

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