Usually, your third step is to hunt for clues like supporting details, vocabulary, dialogue. You will have to search through the specific passage and draw information based on the passage to make an inference.
A antonym for "old fashioned" is new, because when something is old fashioned, it's usually old, and doesn't look in a good state, while something is new, it looks better than something old fashioned, or up to date
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound closely connected words
Answer: A) Playful.
Explanation: the mood of a character in a story is the attitude of the character towards a situation of another character. In the given excerpt from "Mending Wall" the speaker has a playful mood towards his neighbour and the situation where he was asked to build a wall, and he doesn't understand what is the point. To express his point of view he asks questions and he has a playful attitude.
