Read this passage from the "The Strangers That Came to Town": Between three and four o'clock we dropped lines in a school of yellow perch and pulled up no fewer than twenty. The bass continued to bite in the deep black holes off the swamp, which bristled with tree trunks. Aching, blistered, moving like machines, Tom and I geared ourselves for the home stretch. Which word best describes the mood this passage creates?

peaceful

oppressive

excited

cheerful

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Malik Murphy

2 November, 11:39

Read this passage from the "The Strangers That Came to Town": Between three and four o'clock we dropped lines in a school of yellow perch and pulled up no fewer than twenty. The bass continued to bite in the deep black holes off the swamp, which bristled with tree trunks. Aching, blistered, moving like machines, Tom and I geared ourselves for the home stretch. Which word best describes the mood this passage creates?

peaceful

oppressive

excited

cheerful

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Nickolas Hayes · Answer 1

A.) Peaceful

If you think about the author isn't screaming or yelling or acting in away excited she is definaltly not acting cheerful because that's almost the same thing as acting excited. She is also not acting depressed or anything so it intern is not being oppresive.