How does the author's word choice help express the tone of the excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson 1".

Ellery hurried down West 92nd Street toward the main

entrance of Henry Hudson High School stealing guilty

glances at his watch. Miss Carpenter had been crisply

specific about place, date, and time: her homeroom, 109;

Friday morning, April 22nd; first period ("Bell at 8:40, Mr.

Queen").

The negative connotations of the words "hurried,"

"guilty," and "crisply" give the excerpt a tone of

freedom

The negative connotations of the words "hurried,"

"guilty," and "crisply" give the excerpt a tone of

pressure.

The positive connotations of the words "toward,"

"entrance," and "morning" give the excerpt a tone of

freedom.

The positive connotations of the words "toward,"

"entrance," and "morning" give the excerpt a tone of

pressure.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

Which sentence contains a participial phrase that is placed correctly? -jose paid for a hamburger scanning the cafeteria for an empty seat -peeling off her winter jacket, sierra settled into the cozy armchair. -made of soft wool, nadia pulled on a blue sweater -the cowboy jumped from the horse laughing in the face of danger

What did mark twain contribute to the history of the novel? select all that apply.