Answer:
Madame Valmonde utilizes intimidating and gloomy imagery, heightening the tension in the story.
The sentence which uses the passive voice form is option A. A path of destruction was left by the twister. A passive voice construction has no direct object which directly receives the action of the verb. In this kind of sentence, the object becomes the subject instead.
Personally, I would address the problem, explaining to your audience that you've lost your "train of thought" from there, make fun of the situation, say "let's see, where was I?" * recieve an answer from audience * then continue one.
To sum it, make fun, and a light hearted joke about it, and continue to your best ability.
Why, Odysseus blinded his son Polyphemus, of course!
Answer:“The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.”
Explanation: :P
