Question

Read the sentences that describe how Douglass imagines his grandmother's last days:.... "The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her way, in the darkness of age, for a drink of water. . . . She stands—she sits—she staggers—she falls—she groans—she dies—and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains." ..... What mood does Douglass likely hope to evoke in readers with this description?
A.
a mood of threatening alarm

B.
a mood of logical calculation

C.
a mood of peaceful rest

D.
a mood of profound pity

Answer 1

D) profound pity.  ----------