Authors can use specific language to create an emotional mood for a story. a. true b. false

That statement is true.
For example, using words that contain negative connotation such as 'death', or 'crying' would most likely create a gloomy  atmosphere within the story.
Authors could use this technique of sentencing to control the type of emotion that readers would felt when reading a certain part of the story.

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.

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