Read the following excerpt from the way to rainy mountain by n. scott momaday: winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvil's edge. the grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath your feet. there are green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. at a distance in july and august the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh . . which phrase in the passage most strongly contributes to its overall tone? a. linear groves of hickory b. popping up like corn c. willow and witch hazel d. foliage seems to writhe in fire

D). Foliage seems to writhe in fire.

Explanation:

The tone is illustrated as the author's approach or attitude towards a particular subject matter which is reflected through his/her choice of words or language in the work. It serves to equip the readers with a viewpoint or perspective through which they should assess or analyze a particular text and elicit the desired response from them.

In the excerpt from "The Way to Rainy Mountain" by N. Scott Momaday, the phrase that most strongly contribute to the overall tone would be 'foliage seems to writhe in fire' as it serves to complement and reflect the central idea or theme of the passage('winter brings blizzards, steaming foliage in July and August'), which is the devastation brought by varying seasons. Therefore, option D is the correct answer.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.