What is the mood of the excerpt?
o terrified
O angry
O sorrowful
O disgusted
Read the excerpt from "The Monkey's Paw."
He went down in the darkness, and felt his way to the
parlour, and then to the mantelpiece. The talisman was in
its place, and a horrible fear that the unspoken wish might
bring his mutilated son before him ere he could escape
from the room seized upon him, and he caught his breath
as he found that he had lost the direction of the door. His
brow cold with sweat, he felt his way round the table, and
groped along the wall until he found himself in the small
passage with the unwholesome thing in his hand.
Even his wife's face seemed changed as he entered the
room. It was white and expectant, and to his fears seemed
to have an unnatural look upon it. He was afraid of her.

Read this passage.my career in journalism has taught me the challenges of capturing sporting events, yet gregor powell's descriptions are flawless. powell is a gold-medal paralympic swimmer, but his memoir proves that his true strength is the power of his insights.what feature distinguishes this passage as a foreword?

Awell-written summary should be used o in place of reading an original text to you review something that you have already read

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion