Select the sentence that best represents effective diction for an adventure story: A) She put her hand on the doorknob, but she hesitated, her fingers trembling and her heart racing.

B) There was no time to lose; she grabbed the doorknob and yanked the door open to get away.

C) Finally she had arrived, and she knew she only had to reach out and knock to meet her happy fate.

D) The trail of clues had led her here, where she knew the culprit had to be hiding out from the police.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that