Which excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture" conveys the playful tone of the passage?
O The attention of the company was immediately turned to me, if my face had been pale the moment before, it now glowed
almost to burning.
I tried to laugh, but could only make a grimace, and found all the muscles of my face twitching at sixes and sevens.
O There is a picture in the room in which I was put last night, that has had an effect upon me the most singular and
incomprehensible.
O "A picture!" said the old gentleman with the haunted head. “A picture!" cried the narrator with the waggish nose. A picture!
a picture!" echoed several voices.

In his adaptation of this excerpt, laurence olivier uses high cliffs as a a background and he holds onto a knife. what's effect do these choices have?

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Will give read the sentence: (blank) starting to rain outside. which is the best word to complete the sentence? a : its b : its’ c : ’tis d : it’s