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TSI Reading: Analyzing How the Author Creates a Mood 43 Views


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Which combination of words from the passage creates a mood of healing?

(A)"was never sown" and "A lady of my own"
(B)"the breathing balm" and "silence and the calm"
(C)"in glade and bower" and "an overseeing power"
(D)"motions of the storm" and "shall mould the maiden's form"


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Okay see reading shmoop er's Here we go A second

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of two in this question siri's for this fine poem

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here personifying nature The question is which combination of words

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from the passage creates a mood of healing Let's go

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back to passage here We're thinking mood like past tense

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of what a cow says and healing healing we're thinking

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about healing Well nature kind of kills things and they're

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reborn and there's a five of calm that thing comes

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back and i'm half asleep too Alright well reading this

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poem is like taking a yoga class you know minus

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all the sweat and pain cracking bones many of the

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words are calming in tranquil breathing balm and silence and

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calm sound like lyrics from an enya song A bomb

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is something spread on a cut or a burn to

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help heal and protect the wound and silence and calm

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tend to go hand in hand with the idea of

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recovery if he didn't know that book aboard there So

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perhaps that's why grandma shmoop always says she needs some

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peace and quiet after dropping her husband off at the

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airport So anyway the answer is b the breathing bomb

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in the silence and the um that's the combination let's

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goto loser bowl here all these others and just kind

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of come from nowhere get a phrases are equally lovely

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and calling but while they failed to conjure up themes

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of healing and or restoration like was never sewn in

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a lady of mine that doesn't work And in a

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glade in power and overseeing power That's like a lightning

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were striking with clouds and motions of the storm shall

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mold the maiden's form And not really it's like that

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scene from ghost where the guys helping her with a 00:01:37.06 --> [endTime] clay pot You remember they ask your mother shmoop

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