Read the following scene from trifles. county attorney (preoccupied). is there a cat? (mrs. hale glances in a quick covert way at mrs. peters.) mrs. peters. well, not now. they’re superstitious, you know. they leave. county attorney (to sheriff peters, continuing an interrupted conversation.) no sign at all of anyone having come from the outside. their own rope. now let’s go up again and go over it piece by piece. (they start upstairs.) it would have to have been someone who knew just the— (mrs. peters sits down. the two women sit there not looking at one another, but as if peering into something and at the same time holding back. when they talk now, it is the manner of feeling their way over strange ground, as if afraid of what they are saying, but as if they cannot saying it.) how would an audio recording most likely convey the characters’ actions during this scenewith a change in each character’s tone of voicewith the reading of the written stage directionswith a change in the volume of the characters’ voiceswith the lines of dialogue spoken by each character

What words and phrases convey the tone of the text? an ordinary man

When the subject of a sentence performs the action in the sentence the verb in the sentence is in the what ?

Read the excerpt from dominique’s personal narrative. tired of waiting for the bus, which was late for the fifth day in a row, i sat leafing through an old magazine i had stuffed in my purse the previous night. it was terribly warm for a september afternoon, and the sun cast fleeting shadows on the bus stop sign with each car that passed. i wondered when the weather would get cooler and when the new bus driver would start arriving on time. it was about then that i first noticed the apparent agitation of the man sitting next to me. finally, the bus arrived and ambled to a gradual stop directly in front of the restless man. the doors widened, and the bus driver greeted the man with his usual banter in his usual monotone. "good afternoon. how are you today? ” when writing the next few lines of dialogue, dominique should be certain that the lines provide clues about what will happen later on in the narrative. contain made-up details that make the story more exciting. include everyday language that seems real and natural. use precise words that make both men sound educated.