The flashlight flickered and then died, plunging wills into darkness. he reached into his pocket for fresh batteries and found, like always, nothing. hoping anne would realize what had happened and come back and rescue him, he tapped the flashlight several times and frantically pushed the switch off and on, as if that would . nothing. wills tapped the flashlight again, this time harder, and resorted to pleading. "," he muttered. ", turn on.

"which statement best describes how the mood supports the overall meaning of the passage?
a. the terrifying mood supports the meaning that anne does not like wills very much.
b. the anxious mood supports the meaning that wills needs to learn to be better prepared.
c. the anxious mood supports the meaning that anne should not have left wills behind.
d. the terrifying mood supports the meaning that wills does not understand how much danger he is in.

B.The anxious mood supports the meaning that Wills needs to learn to be better prepared.

The mood throughout the passage is anxious, as we learn that Wills has been left alone and in the dark. Moreover, his speech transmitss this anxiety, as he pleads with the flashlight. We also learn that Wills is often unprepared by the line: "He reached into his pocket for fresh batteries and found, like always, nothing." We can infer from this statement that Wills' situation is likely a product of his own irresponsibility.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

which lines in this excerpt from act i of shakespeare's romeo and juliet suggest that lord capulet respects free will?