Read the excerpt from a student’s essay. The first mention of Ship-Trap Island already gives the reader an uneasy feeling. Whitney describes the island’s fearsome reputation among the ship’s crew as Rainsford peers into the black night to see any sign of the place. He cannot see the mysterious island, and Whitney knows little about it, other than that it frightens the sailors. Interestingly, it fills Whitney with a sense of dread as well.

Which revision of the first sentence best incorporates the literary term mood?

Rainsford is not in the mood to listen to Whitney’s irrational assumptions about Ship-Trap Island.
Whitney and Rainsford’s discussion of Ship-Trap Island immediately establishes a foreboding mood.
Whitney’s description of Ship-Trap Island instantly puts the reader into the right mood to read the story.
The story’s overall tone is established by the moods of its characters, Whitney and Rainsford.

Whitney and Rainsford’s discussion of Ship-Trap Island immediately establishes a foreboding mood.

Explanation: In literature, the mood is a literary element that makes the reader feel certain feelings or vibes through words and descriptions. It can also be described as the atmosphere of a story or a text, it is basically the emotional setting of the story. In the given excerpt from a student's essay about "The Most Dangerous Game" the revision that best incorporates the term "mood" in a literary context is "Whitney and Rainsford’s discussion of Ship-Trap Island immediately establishes a foreboding mood" because it is describing the atmosphere.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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today at the bank, an old lady asked me to check her balance. so i pushed her over.