Which excerpt from "the turtle” includes words that create a calm and welcoming mood? (a) skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes (b )to dig with her ungainly feet a nest, and hunker there spewing her white eggs down (c) of her patience, her fortitude, her determination to complete what she was born to do – (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.

I would contend that the right answer is actually the 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: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that the reference to "the soft wind" suggests a calm and gentle mood, whereas the description of it as "a gate through which her life keeps walking" makes the reader think of that wind as a welcoming and encouraging force that impels the turtle to keep moving forward, in spite of her limitations.    

not concrete, existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence

after the moon goes from a full moon it turns into a waning gibbous moon.

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