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The words from Li-Young Lee's in "From Blossoms" that most clearly help create a positive mood are "sweet" and "nectar" because these words gets an ideia of sweet, good things to the reader.
It’s probably best to be straight up and ask. But if you don’t want to do that, you could just mention her up in passing. Such as “Hey did you see what Anna posted?” (let’s say Anna) or maybe some thing like “hey I literally thought I saw Anna at Walmart” and then when this person is somehow brought up, you could be like “speaking of which, I didn’t see her at the party? Everything okay?”
An understatement is when an author presents something as casual and unimortant when the matter at hand is actually very serious. In other words, an understatement is when an author downplays the severity of a situation.
In my opinion, the second main argument in "The Human Drift" is that human wandering across the planet, back and forth, has always been fueled by fear, while motivated by the search of food (as the first argument says). It is a primal fear that, if you don't eat, you will end up in someone else's stomach. Here is a nice excerpt that illustrates this argument: "Dominated by fear, and by their very fear accelerating their development, these early ancestors of ours, suffering hunger-pangs very like the ones we experience to-day, drifted on, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, wandering through thousand-year-long odysseys of screaming primordial savagery, until they left their skeletons in glacial gravels, some of them, and their bone-scratchings in cave-men's lairs."
