Which best states a comparison of the tones used in these sentences? Both sentences are negative, but the second sentence has a more negative tone. Both sentences are positive, but the first sentence has a more serious tone. Both sentences are despairing, but the first sentence has a gloomier tone. Both sentences are uplifting, but the second sentence has a more moral tone.

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Read this sentence from Silent Spring.

Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year.

Read this sentence from "Save the Redwoods".

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when light comes the heart of the people is always right.

Which best states a comparison of the tones used in these sentences?

A. Both sentences are negative, but the second sentence has a more negative tone.

B. Both sentences are positive, but the first sentence has a more serious tone.

C. Both sentences are despairing, but the first sentence has a gloomier tone.

D. Both sentences are uplifting, but the second sentence has a more moral tone.

The option that best states a comparison of the tones is:

D. Both sentences are uplifting, but the second sentence has a more moral tone.

Explanation:

Both the sentences from "Silent Spring" and "Save the Redwoods" have an uplifting tone. However, the second sentence talks of right and wrong, which is a moral matter. The first sentence does not bring any type of judgement, only a sense of inspiration and delight. The second sentence speaks of light coming to the heart of people, which does inspire some cheerfulness. But it still talks of darkness, ignorance, and wrongful doing. Therefore, we can say both sentences are uplifting, but the second one has a more moral tone.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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