2points read this passage: min carefully placed the cooing baby onto the freshly cleaned blanket. soft wind caressed the baby's cheeks and tickled the tiny toes of her feet, causing her to sigh gently. stretching out next to the baby, min relaxed on the grass and absently watched the tranquil clouds as they floated overhead what mood does the author's use of imagery in the passage create? o a. peaceful ob. urgent o c. scared o d. confused

Ead this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad." that's when he began singing the songs he'd been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—"eyes in my head," "x's and o's," "who's watching hardest"—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one's data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched. how does the author use satire in this excerpt?