The towns in the valley went about their daily life, deaf to the moaning of the earth, until that fateful wednesday night in november when a prolonged roar announced the end of the world, and walls of snow broke loose, rolling in an avalanche of clay, stones, and water that descended on the villages and buried them beneath unfathomable meters of telluric vomit. which of the following best describes the mood created by the speaker and the setting? a. angered b. cautionary c. menacing d. negative