What is the definition of “mood”?
a.
the overall feeling evoked by a play’s language
b.
an object that represents an idea presented in a play
c.
the use of vivid language to create sensory images
d.
a technique used to build suspense in a play

A. the overall feeling evoked by a play’s language

Explanation:

In literature, the mood is the prevailing emotion or feeling present in a play, a story, a novel or other literary work, which is mainly determined by word choice. Take a look at the following excerpt from The Road by Corman McCarthy:

The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up.No sound but the wind in the bare and blackened trees. He rose and stood tottering on that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.

Here, words like “sightless and impenetrable,” “blackness,” “blackened trees” and “on that cold autistic dark” creates a gloomy or somber atmosphere in the narrative and, consequently, it evokes that same feeling within the reader: the mood of the excerpt is gloomy.

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answer

explanation

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we can rewrite this as:

let

then the equation becomes:

the factors of 8 that sum up to -9 are {-1,-8}

we split the middle term with these factors to obtain,

we factor by grouping to obtain:

apply the zero product property to get:

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