At a curfew-darkened ciudad trujillo, speaking in worried whispers to your brothers, which car to take, who'd be willing to drive it, what explanation to give should we be discovered . . on the way to the beach, you added, eyeing me. the uncles fell in, chuckling phony chuckles, what a good time she'll have learning to swim! back in my sisters' room mami was packing a hurried bag, allowing one toy apiece, her red eyes belying her explanation: a week at the beach so papi can get some rest. she dressed us in our best dresses, party shoes. something was off, i knew, but i was young and didn't think adult things could go wrong. so as we quietly filed out of the house we wouldn't see again for another decade, the foreshadowing in the excerpt above makes the poem's tone   a: excited b: tense c:   reflective d: angry

B) Tense.

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 the given excerpt the foreshadowing (that they wouldn't see in about a decade the house they are leaving) creates a tense tone, because the speaker doesn't really understand why they are leaving.

explanation:

the goblins and dwarves have different perspectives of things. bilbo is a hobbit and goblins dwarves and hobbits all believe and do a different way of living

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.

i hope to be of

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.