Which lines best depict a joyous mood? willows lean by the water. pleas of water/cry through the trees. the day is cold, and dark, and dreary/it rains, and the wind is never weary; all things rejoice in youth and love,/the fulness of their first delight! a pair of night-hawks windily sweep, or fall,/booming, toward the trees.

Which lines best depict a joyous mood?

All things rejoice in youth and love,/The fulness of their first delight!

An author's choice of words is key to evoke a specific mood and tone on the reader. For example, the words "rejoice", "love" and "delight" are indicative of a joyous mood.

The remaining sentences contain words or phrases that evoke a gloomy, melancholic or mysterious mood "cry", "cold, and dark, and dreary", "rains", "night-hawks" or "booming, towards the trees".

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.