Read the following paragraph from John Muir's "The Calypso Borealis" and pay close attention to the words in bold. In one paragraph of three to five sentences, explain Muir's
use of diction and the mood his choice of words creates. Use proper spelling and grammar in your response.

(Bold words marked with **)

The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand
excursion was Calypso borealis (the Hider of the North). had been fording streams more and more *difficult* to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more
extensive and more *difficult* to *force* one's way through. Entering one of these great tamarac
and arbor-vitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very *crooked* course by compass, *struggling* through *tangled* drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of
*fallen* trees, I began to *fear* that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, *faint* and *hungry*, to plan a
nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or
Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age? a.ivan ilyich was  le phenix de la famille  as people said.  he was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man.b.  even when he was at the school of law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life:   a capable, cheerful, good-natured, and sociable man, though strict in the fulfillment of what he considered to be his duty:   and he considered his duty to be what was so considered by those in authority.c.neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.d.all the enthusiasms of childhood and youth passed without leaving much trace on him; he succumbed to sensuality, to vanity, and latterly among the highest classes to liberalism, but always within limits which his instinct unfailingly indicated to him as correct.e.at school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;