Highlight words that convey the tone. then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. everywhere was a shadow of death. the farmers spoke of much illness among their families. in the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. —silent spring, rachel carson which words and phrases in the passage create a tone of foreboding? check all that apply. “strange blight” “evil spell” “mysterious maladies” “cattle and sheep” “shadow of death” “their families”

Strange blight, Shadow of death, Mysterious maladies

Explanation:

The foreboding tone is a technique that is warning readers that something bad will happen in the text.

The word ''blight'' is almost describing the corruption of something, disease, and even destruction. After the ''strange blight'' in the text, we can see that everything began to change which is considering that the foreboding in this case is successfully done.

Foreboding tone we can also found in ''Shadow of death'' and ''Mysterious maladies''. Shadow of death is not referring to concrete death, it is referring to something that may cause death which is also describing that something bad will happen.

Mysterious maladies are referring to mysterious diseases that can happen in any time since they are mysterious so the readers doesn't know when it will happen but they are knowing that it is something bad.

hey! what was the rest of the question?

b. and i with my fighting heart, i thought at

first / to steal up to him [the cyclops].   the cyclops’ actions first odysseus to take

action after killing his men and trapping in the cave revealed his intent of

doing them harm.   that is why odysseus

blinded him to enable him and his men to escape.