Question

Read this excerpt from Exploring the Titanic.

Answer 1

The answer is B: doubting

Answer 2

Answer:

B). Doubting

Explanation:

The mood is quite significant and crucial to a literary work as it creates a specific atmosphere that evokes specific emotions and feelings of the readers. The mood of the work is reflected through the setting, theme, diction, tone, and use of words that assist to create an emotional setting to surround the readers and engross them in it and evoke the desired response from them. The mood that the author creates in this excerpt is 'doubting' which is clearly reflected through his recurring suspicious questions like "Would we return empty-handed? ", "Were we looking in the wrong place?" that enhances the uncertainty of the author. Thus, the correct answer is option B.