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Read the excerpt of a conversation between Sadako and her father, Mr. Endo, from "Morning Rain.” "You like the green ones, don’t you, the green ones with kinako?” Sadako nodded with unnecessary vigor. She watched him put on his overcoat and then brought him the umbrella. As he was going out the door, she realized she had not said a word to him since she asked him whether he could hear the rain. "Oh, yes,” she said, "get a lot of the green ones, the green ones with kinako!” It was only when the baby cried out a second later that she became aware that she had been shouting at the top of her lungs. Which detail from the excerpt best creates an anxious tone? Sadako’s father asks, “You like the green ones, don’t you?” Sadako’s father uses the word kinako in his question. Sadako nods her head with “unnecessary vigor.” Sadako watches her father “put on his overcoat.”

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The detail from the excerpt that best creates an anxious tone is when Sadako watches her father "put on his overcoat." This detail implies that her father is leaving, which can create an anxious atmosphere as it suggests a potential separation or absence.

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