N this activity, you’ll read and annotate an excerpt from Under the Mesquite to show a deeper understanding of the text. You’ll note powerful diction and then go on to describe the mood and voice of the speaker. Part A
Read this excerpt from the fiction text Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall. Annotate the text for powerful diction that reveals the meaning, voice, and mood. Include three annotations. Type your annotations into the following dialectical journal.

quotes from the text: what did you pick
annotations: what notes did you write about the meaning voice, or mood.

Which best describes the tone in these lines "the fish"

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

What inference can be made based on the daughters actions in this passage