How does the author's syntax contribute to the tone of the text? A. The arrangement develops a humorous tone about acquiring luxuries. B. The arrangement emphasizes a frustrated tone about retaining luxuries. C. The arrangement emphasizes a grave tone toward amassing wealth. D. The arrangement develops a severe tone toward accumulating wealth.

Which would be the most credible source for researching the effects of smoking? letter from your grandfather web page about someone’s lung cancer report prepared by a tobacco company research article in a scientific journal

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

What parts of hamlet’s soliloquy support a more negative outlook on life?