Amid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm. i rushed to its deadly brink. i threw my straining vision below. the glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost recesses. yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend the meaning of what i saw. at length it forced—it wrestled its way into my soul—it burned itself in upon my shuddering reason. o for a voice to speak! —oh, horror! —oh, any horror but this! with a shriek i rushed from the margin and buried my face in my hands—weeping bitterly. which word best describes the narrator in the passage above?
humorous
determined
frightened insensitive

Frightened.

Explanation:

In order to establish the tone and the attitude that a character displays, we need to look both at the event he describes as well as at the words the character uses to describe this event. In this passage, the author is clearly frightened. He describes a fire (fiery destruction) and the protection that he felt a well provided. However, he also describes how he saw the reflection of the fire in the well, and how this filled him with horror. Moreover, we can look at how the speaker describes this event. He uses words such as "deadly," "wild," "shuddering," "horror" and "bitterly." All of these words convey a frightened tone.

autobiography of an ex-colored man is told from the first-person point of view of an unnamed male narrator. he starts his tale by stating that he is going to reveal the great secret of his life. he first takes the reader to his childhood in georgia where he was raised by a single mother. he was dissapointed in his own color.

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