Read the following sentences from The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Based on these sentences, how would you describe the mood?
"The maple tree...burned like a gigantic torch" (4-5).
"The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels" (5-6).
"The color shouted and sang to [Kit]" (7).
What type of imagery is mainly being used in the following lines from Boy: Tales of Childhood?
[Mrs. Prackett's] apron was grey and greasy. Her blouse had bits of breakfast all over it, toast crumbs and tea stains and splotches of dried egg yolk.
How would you describe the overall mood the imagery creates?
[Mrs. Prackett's] apron was grey and greasy. Her blouse had bits of breakfast all over it, toast crumbs and tea stains and splotches of dried egg yolk.
What words and details in the following lines help to create a cheerful mood? Choose 2.
Mr. John Philip Johnson shut his front door behind him and went down his front steps into the bright mornings with a feeling that all was well with the world on this best of all days, and wasn't the sun warm and good, and didn't his shoes feel comfortable...
Read the following words and details from Rip Van Winkle. What mood do they help create?
"a deep, mountain glen, wild, lonely, and shagged..." (1-2)
"...long blue shadows..." (5)
"...looking fearfully down into the glen" (16)