Read the excerpt from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.As he gazed, something bright and small seemed to twinkle down in the heartof it, vanished, then twinkled once more like a tiny star. But itcould hardly be a star in such an unlikely situation; and it was tooglittering and small for a glow-worm. Then, as he looked, it winked athim, and so declared itself to be an eye; and a small face begangradually to grow up round it, like a frame round a picture.
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The negative connotations of the words “tiny,” “vanished,” and “hardly” give the excerpt a tone of loss.B
The negative connotations of the words “tiny,” “vanished,” and “hardly” give the excerpt a tone of discovery.C
The positive connotations of the words “twinkle,” “glittering,” and “winked” give the excerpt a tone of discovery.D
The positive connotations of the words “twinkle,” glittering,” and “winked” give the excerpt a tone of loss.