Which is a way that an author could develop a cheerful mood in a text?
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Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Obasan by Joy Kogawa.I hurried behind her as she marched ahead to the car."What a conference! You should have been with me, Nomi,” she said. "There was so much to learn. I had no idea how much I still hurt. Just read some of these papers.” She flung open her briefcase and took out a bundle of conference notes and papers as I searched for the car keys."Ever read this?” she asked, punctuating the air with a pamphlet entitled "Racial Discrimination by Orders-in-Council.”
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of Obasan by Joy Kogawa.Obasan is sitting on a mandarin box at my feet winding the twine from Aunt Emily’s package onto a twine ball she keeps in the pantry.Obasan never discards anything. Besides the twine ball, there’s a ball of string full of knots, a number of balls of wool bits, and even short bits of thread twirled around popsicle sticks that are stacked up like soldiers in a black woven x. The twine ball is larger than a baseball and slips off her lap, rolling a short distance along the floor.
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Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of Obasan by Joy Kogawa."Who are the letters from?” I ask loudly.She does not respond. Her face is expressionless. After a while she puts down the magnifying glass."Everyone someday dies,” she says again.By repeating this so often, I suppose she is trying to make realizable what is real. Surely that is task enough for her today. But I ask once more, "Who are the letters from?”She stares steadily at the table. The greater my urgency to know, the thicker her silences have always been. No prodding will elicit clues.Her hand moves on the table like an electrocardiograph needle, delicate and unreadable. Then, with her back bent forward, she stands up and shuffles out of the room.Today is not, I repeat, reprimanding myself—today is not the day for unnecessary questions.
How can diction create mood in a literary work? Select three answers.
Read the excerpt from Omer’s article on training for a race.I noticed my left sneaker was untied. I bent down and methodically knotted the laces, trying to ignore the other runners corralled into this small waiting area. I heard the blare of the horn, signaling the race would soon begin. The crowd began the slow but charged shuffle toward the start line. The morning air tasted cool and clean, like victory; hadn’t I spent months training for this marathon? I felt in my pocket for my lucky penny, and felt its smooth, worn surface. The familiarity of the token calmed my nerves. I knew I was ready. As the starting point came into sight, the sun’s glare made it appear like a throne ready to be claimed. The crowd and I began to pick up our pace; today, I thought, I would conquer this course.
What is diction?
Which is a mood that an author could create in a text?
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