How does the author's word choice help express the tone of the excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson 1".

Ellery hurried down West 92nd Street toward the main

entrance of Henry Hudson High School stealing guilty

glances at his watch. Miss Carpenter had been crisply

specific about place, date, and time: her homeroom, 109;

Friday morning, April 22nd; first period ("Bell at 8:40, Mr.

Queen").

The negative connotations of the words "hurried,"

"guilty," and "crisply" give the excerpt a tone of

freedom

The negative connotations of the words "hurried,"

"guilty," and "crisply" give the excerpt a tone of

pressure.

The positive connotations of the words "toward,"

"entrance," and "morning" give the excerpt a tone of

freedom.

The positive connotations of the words "toward,"

"entrance," and "morning" give the excerpt a tone of

pressure.

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The negative connotations of the words "hurried,"

"guilty," and "crisply" give the excerpt a tone of

pressure.

Explanation:Well, everyhting else talked about freedom in which tha had nothing to do with the excerpt.

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answer: b. grete might have remained as shy and immature as she was at the beginning of the story.

one of the most interesting characteristics of gregor's metamorphosis is that, although he is the only character who has physically changed, it is this same change which triggered a transformation in the rest of his family.

by taking care of gregor, grete has become stronger and more confident. she has found a life outside of the house, and has become more independent and self-sufficient. the novel implies that the trigger for the change is gregor's own transformation, and that without it, grete was likely to remain as shy and immature as she was at the beginning of the book.

explanation:

he believed if we do not fight back the britins would be in every household