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Compare these two passages from "The Yellow Wallpaper."


And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern it strangles so. I think that is why it has so many heads.


But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.Which words from the passages best express their disturbing tones?

A.Many/Fits

B.Time/Shoulder

C.Climb/Floor

D.Strangles/Creep

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niquelove
DStrangles/Creeps. That seems to be the best answer.
sortingsteering

Answer: D. Strangles/Creep.

Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. In both the given excerpts we can indentify a disturbing tone, created by their word choices, the words that best express this tone are "strangles" in the first excerpt, and "creep" in the second one.

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