Answer:
A. In paragraph 1, the mood is cold and dark, dreary.
B. In paragraph 2, the feeling is more upbeat and refreshing.
2. In paragraph 1, you have words such as little hands clamoring to escape prison, lifeless company, and boney exposed ankles.
In paragraph 2, you have words such as revitalized by the fresh surge of oxygen, dancing leaves tickled her ankles, She laughed until tears of delight trickled down her prematurely-aged cheeks, and for the first time in her life, she was happy.
3. The setting is an abandoned park.
4. If the setting helps to set the mood of the story and characters.
Uncle Jordan earns money by working at a clown at children’s birthday parties.
Answer:
I believe C or D would be the correct answer.
Explanation:
Both have an excellent written theme, although C is more descriptive than D.
What is really stated in this passage is that absinthe tastes like licorice, and that everything else that a person waits a long time to try also tastes like licorice. What this passage actually means, however, is that things are better (or seem better) when you wait for them. For example, a driver's license is not an extraordinary thing in itself, but it seems so much better when a person has had to wait his or her whole life to obtain it. The freedom of being on the road may even also be described as "sweet"- like licorice.
The things that people wait for in life (unless they are food-related, technically) do not actually taste like licorice, but it relates the literal action of the story to the figurative meaning behind it by relating to the reader's understanding that things seem sweeter when they have been looked forward to for a long time.
