Read the excerpt from "the story of an hour." when she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. she said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free! ” the vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. they stayed keen and bright. her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body. which words best establish a mood of relief in the excerpt? “slightly,” “vacant,” “eyes,” and “beat” “whispered,” “stare,” “terror,” and “pulses” “lips,” “stayed,” “keen,” and “blood” “escaped,” “free,” “warmed,” and “relaxed”

The correct answer is D. “escaped,” “free,” “warmed,” and “relaxed”

Explanation:

In a text or passage, the mood refers to the general atmosphere and the emotional features this atmosphere had in a story. This atmosphere is created using multiple elements that include the use of setting, the tone of the text, the use of description and the use of words. In this excerpt, the mood is a mood or atmosphere of relief as the narrator describes a woman that seems to have lived a difficult experience but is finally freed or relief from it. This mood is emphasized by the words "escaped" and "free, free, free!" that show the character is able to recognize the difficult situation is over and the words "warmed" and "relaxed" that shows physically she can finally feel better and she feels relief. Therefore, the words that establish a mood of relief are  “escaped,” “free,” “warmed,” and “relaxed”.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

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teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

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