Read the excerpt from "a cub pilot" by mark twain.
i heard the door close gently. i looked around, and there stood mr. bixby, smiling a bland, sweet smile.
how does the word gently contribute to the tone of the passage?
it creates a tone of mocking.
it creats a tone of calmness.
it creates a tone of anger.
it creates a tone of playfulness.

In a speech to high school students, a business owner makes the following statement short response

Match the sentence to its correct verb mood

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.