Read this excerpt from the grapes of the wrath: sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. we measured it and broke it up. we were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. even if it's no good, it's still ours. that's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it. that makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.
which best describes how the diction supports the tone of this passage?