The thunder boomed and the lightning flashed, mirroring his feelings exactly. he crumpled the letter in his fist. how dare she presume that he would surrender so easily? snatching the pen from the desk, he scratched his reply. which word in the passage best establishes its tone? a. scratched b. presume c. mirroring d. surrender

A. Scratched.

Explanation: In literature, the tone refers to the attitude of the author towards the audience, the subject developed in the text or even towards a character. There are multiple types of tones, happy, sad, angry, suspenseful, fearful, etc. In the given excerpt we can see the description of a man that is very angry for something he just read in a letter, we can tell he is angry because it compares his feelings with the boom of the thunder and the flash of the lightning, the word that best establishes the tone is "scratched" because it gives the idea of anger and frustration.

in "people in peace, not profit and war" chrisholm uses inductive reasoning for her argument against defense spending by stating that the new administration, like most americans, wanted to invest in social objectives, so they must not want to prioritize defense spending. mr. nixon said "we can delay no longer in launching new approaches to the problem that beset them", but chrisholm points out that the programs were delayed anyways.

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