which maintains the tone established in these three sentences?

soaking wet and exhausted, kim trembled with cold. carson took off his coat and wrapped it around her shoulders. when reporters began to flock around kim, he blocked their path and told them to respect kim's privacy, especially after all she had been through.
a) shivering and miserable, kim wondered if anyone was coming to bring her dry clothes.

b) his stern expression convinced the reporters that he would shield kim from any questions.
c) the reporters reacted with humor to carson's warning since he didn't look like he was serious.
d) because it had been such a horrible accident, carson was when the reporters decided to leave.

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

Excerpt from the rainbow, chapter x (excerpt) d. h. lawrence then there was an outcry. mrs. brangwen would not have it; no, she would not. all her innate dignity and standoffishness rose up. then there was the vicar lecturing the school. "it was a sad thing that the boys of cossethay could not behave more like gentlemen to the girls of cossethay. indeed, what kind of boy was it that should set upon a girl, and kick her, and beat her, and tear her pinafore? that boy deserved severe castigation, and the name of coward, for no boy who was not a coward—etc., etc." from the textual evidence provided in this paragraph, what conclusions can the reader draw regarding the vicar? a) he favors boys over girls. b) he has no strong feelings. c) he supports mrs. brangwen's perspective entirely. d) he tends to be indulgent towards children's misbehavior.

Ineed . the main pattern of organization used for this passage is: a. time order b. list of items c. contrast d. comparison