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In this sentence, the picnic supplies is hoping for a warm day. This doesn't really make sense though.
The best answer would be option D
Thoreau mostly uses imagery to illustrate time in the excerpt. The second sentence is saying that he is in the midst of time/living, and he can "detect how shallow it is," meaning that he is aware that life is short and that the end is inevitable. Thoreau also describes time as being fleeting, but ever-present.
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The effectiveness of a speech tags is more often related to how you used it rather than what type of speech tag it is
It is used to alert the readers about a sentence that is directly spoken
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The howl of a timber wolf