Which metaphor creates the most negative mood? a. the storm was a miracle that brought much needed rain to the valley. b. the storm was a melody that gently rocked the village to sleep. c. the storm was a hammer that pummeled the roof of the house. d. the storm was a respite from the oppressive heat of summer.?

C. The storm was a hammer that pummeled the roof of the house.

The correct answer is c. The storm was a respite from the oppressive heat of summer. Metaphors are comparisons between two different things. The writes use metaphors to describe something and to make their writing more interesting or entertaining, sometimes easier to understand. Sentence C has a negative mood it means that the storm provokes serious disasters.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.