Which of the following sentences most clearly uses imagery to create a negative mood? a. "how dare you! " bonnie said. "you know as well as i do that we can never get this project done without fred and dominick! " b. swallows flittered back and forth in the treetop, seemingly at play among the twigs and leaves of the old and mighty maple. c. never had gary looked upon a sight so dreadful and melancholy, and he knew he would never shake the terror from his mind. d. beneath the surface of the putrid swamp came a gurgling that suggested the ghosts of those who died here were drowning still.

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir