Question

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson 1". Louise Carpenter stood tensely straight at her desk, her pretty face almost as white as the envelope she was clutching. And she was glaring at a mass of boy and girl faces so blankly, so furtively quiet that the silence sizzled. How does the author's word choice help express the tone of the excerpt? A. The positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence," give the excerpt a tone of calmness. B. The positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. C. The negative connotations of the words "tensely," "clutching," and "sizzled" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. D. The negative connotations of the words "tensely," "clutching," and "sizzled" give the excerpt a tone of calmness.

Answer 1

The answer is C

Step-by-step explanation:

The words "clutching," and "sizzled" give a tone of nervousness

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Answer 2

The author's word choice help to express the tone of the excerpt since The negative connotations of the words "tensely," "clutching," and "sizzled" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness.

Step-by-step explanation:

The use of the words "tensely," "clutching," and "sizzled" are indeed giving a more powerful meaning to the general idea of this excerpt, if this moment had been written without using any of this strong words, the level of tension on Louise Carpenter could not have been almost tangible to the reader as they create expectation and an increment of stress.