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15 April, 04:04

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

I was staring at the door, making it out in my mind rather than seeing it, in the dark. I lay quite still-a victim already-but the arrhythmia of my heart was fleeing, knocking this way and that against its body-cage. How finely tuned the senses are, just out of rest, sleep! I could never listen intently as that in the distractions of the day; I was reading every faintest sound, identifying and classifying its possible threat.

Identify the tone of this excerpt from the opening of Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time."

A. ominous

B. flat

C. peaceful

D. angry

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  1. 15 April, 05:14
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    C. peaceful you will Associate this term with the beginning of a story that is joyful or it can take a completely different turn but for now it is peaceful.
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