Which excerpt from "the turtle” includes words that create a calm and welcoming mood? skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes to dig with her ungainly feet a nest, and hunker there spewing her white eggs down of her patience, her fortitude, her determination to complete what she was born to do – it isn’t even hers but came to her in the rain or the soft wind, which is a gate through which her life keeps walking.

The best option is D:

It isn’t even hers but came to her

in the rain or the soft wind,

which is a gate through which her life keeps walking.

Explanation:

"The Turtle" is a poem by author Mary Oliver. The speaker describes the turtle's life purpose of leaving the water to lay eggs in the sand, a sacred, beautiful action done by instinct alone. The speaker admires the turtle's drive and patience in completing her task, and reflects on how the turtle is unaware of itself as an individual. The turtle sees itself as the world, and world as itself.

Among the excerpts given for analysis, the one that includes words that create a calm and welcoming mood is:

It isn’t even hers but came to her

in the rain or the soft wind,

which is a gate through which her life keeps walking.

This excerpt talks of the turtle's instinct, of which the animal itself is unaware. When the author says the instinct came to "her in the rain or the soft wind", she creates a calm and welcoming mood. Rain and soft wind evoke an emotional response from readers: calmness, tranquility, peace. The noise produced by the rain or the soft wind is commonly associated with the feeling of drowsiness, or to the comfort of being home, protected, while the rain falls and the wind blows.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)