A mournful mood is often characterized by creating an environment of sadness, lament, grief or sorrow, Also, this kind of mood is related to the mourning for the dead. Therefore, the words in the excerpt that best convey a mournful message and create a mournful mood because of their relation to this feeling of sadness are: bleak, dying, ghost, and sorrow.
Doctors warned people to stay away from the medical tent where patients were being treated in order to avoid contagion. This means to avoid the spread or transfer of diseases or infection. Contagion means the communication of illnesses from one person to another, most especially when in close contact.
Answer:
C) He slows the action to show how the children feel as they realize Margot is still in the closet.
Explanation:
In Ray Bradbury's short science fictional story "Throughout All Summer In A Day", the story revolves around the time when it has been raining for seven years on the planet Venus. the sun shines only for a couple hours and then rain started again, which is like a normal thing for the people on that planet.
At the start of the story, the author describes the children as<em> "animals escaped from their caves"</em> and <em>"wheels, all tumbling spokes"</em>. This is to show how energetic and restless they are, and their excitement in seeing the sun. But then, his narrative changed, describing them standing <em>"as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor."</em> This is after their realization that they have left Margot locked up the whole time they were enjoying the sunlight. This change in the way the author describes them shows the more slower scene of their realization, the feeling of remorse they have n their action.
The answer is A, there is no clauses in A, making it a simple sentence.
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