CASCA: I have seen tempests when the scolding winds. Have rived the knotty oaks. But never till tonight, never till now, did I g
o through a tempest dropping fire. Either there is a civil strife in heaven, Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction. Which description fits the mood expressed in this excerpt best? A. Excited and in anticipation of something wonderful once the storm is over B. Afraid of this storm because it is one of the worst of all he has experienced. C. Calm because this is not the first storm he has encountered. D. tense and in
I believe that the description that fits the mood expressed in this excerpt best is B. afraid of this storm because it is one of the worst of all he has experienced. He says that he has experienced many storms, but that none of them were anything like the one he is experiencing at this moment, and so he is afraid of it.
The topic sentence is almost always the first sentence of a paragraph, to give a very brief summary of what the reader is about to read and also to make the reader interested. This means the best answer for this question is:
B) The greatest gift the Sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing.
