How does personification affect the tone of the first stanza? It helps create a tone of tension and anxiety. It gives the stanza a positive, playful tone. It helps create a tone of doubt and wariness. It gives the stanza a solemn, reverent tone.

a solemn reverent tone

Explanation:

it would make more sense, why would you want to create a sense of unease in the beginning of your poem.

the california missions began in the late 18th century as an effort to convert native americans to catholicism and expand european territory. there were 21 missions in all, lasting from 1769 until about 1833.   the missions were built by the spanish starting in 1769 in order to “colonize” the territory of alta california. so the missions were important because they were the means of settling california. it also wanted to keep other european countries out of alta california. building settlements along the coast would them meet these goals. missionaries wanted to convert the indians to the roman catholic faith. california indians did much of the work to build missions.

other sources of text

explanation:

this can be magazines, news reports, scholarly articles, textbooks, research papers etc.