Ith skis on and poles in hand, Nate inched toward the ski lift. He felt his hands grip the poles tighter and tighter with every shuffle. Nate stood in place and waited for the moving seat to arrive. His knees trembled, and his heart raced like the wind. Would he be able to hop on without falling or hurting himself? Why does the author most likely use the underlined phrase?

to create a more playful or excited tone
to improve the flow of the paragraph
to make the style of the paragraph more interesting
to reveal his or her attitude about Nate's experience

With skis on and poles in hand, Nate inched toward the ski lift. He felt his hands grip the poles tighter and tighter with every shuffle. Nate stood in place and waited for the moving seat to arrive. His knees trembled, and his heart raced like the wind. Would he be able to hop on without falling or hurting himself?

Why does the author most likely use the underlined phrase?

to create a more playful or excited tone

to improve the flow of the paragraph

to make the style of the paragraph more interesting

to reveal his or her attitude about Nate's experience

to create a more playful or excited tone

Explanation:

The author most likely uses the underlined phrase to create a more playful and excited tone in which he shows Nate's attitude towards skiing and how he held the skis and pole in position.

The author uses it to give the that scene a more carefree tone.

The underlined phrase "and his heart raced like the wind" would be to create a more playful or excited tone.

Explanation:

well you see here that it says his heart raced like the wind.. did his heart actually race? no. so the author used it to create a more playful or excited tone.

the excerpt from chapter 2 of "animal farm", by george orwell that is an example of foreshadowing is "these three (snowball, napoleon, and squealer) had elaborated old major's teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave the name of animalism." animal farm is an allegory of how czarist russia developed into communist russia with all its corruption. old major's teachings represent marx's theories turned into communism, animalism, by the three pigs. this foreshadows the oppression and corruption that will follow this revolt.

i am not sure if this is the correct story but i think the answerr is when twain's confidence when he asked twin a question

explanation: