English, 17.12.2019 06:31 johnb8223

read the following passage from muir's "calypso borealis" and answer the question.

but when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, i found beautiful calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung …

identify and explain the tone of this passage. what specific words contribute to the tone? then, explain how the tone of the passage would change if the words "puddle of gray algae in which its insignificant bleached bulb had fallen into a tangle of twigs" replaced the words in bold. be sure to identify the new tone and explain how the changed words create that tone. your response should be a paragraph of 3–5 sentences.

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