The tone of the story is neutral, if not detached. Because the reader does not have access to Elisa's private thoughts, the story lacks the intense emotion of her inner frustrations. Instead, it has a distant, plaintive, somewhat melancholy tone.
Either add the passage with the question so we know what you are referring to or do not post questions like these. Not everybody has read what you have. This question is completely useless and unanswerable without the story to go off of.
It is referring to a brain as she gets cloudy in the head “mental” refers to the word brain
Answer:
1. Be open and free of judgment
2. actively
3. as class discussions
4. imperative
5. so you can easily refer back to them
6. when writing a letter to a friend
7. an observation
8. respectfully
9. the evidence
10. relate back to the argument
11. results from a scientific study done on human attention span over the course of the past two years