Read the following story.

keiko sat in a circle with four others, their eyes downcast, their posture slumped. no one said a word. outside the window storm clouds threatened to overtake the city skyline. when the phone finally rang, everyone’s heads snapped up in terror. no one wanted to answer.

which effect does the author achieve through the story’s setting?

a. the author establishes a mood of doom.

b. the author introduces the main character.

c. the author creates the story’s central conflict.

d. the author sets up the hook of the story.

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts