Which of these phrases uses the best voice and word choice for a scary story?

A. It was a dark and stormy night; the breath of the cool breeze sent shivers up my spine.
B. The little mice danced with joy because they were so excited about their new home.
C. Her grandmother's voice grew weak as she told the story of her journey to America.
D. Leonard ran so quickly his heart was beating out of his chest and his lungs burned.

After reading this excerpt, darren makes a text-to-text connection. which example is a text-to-text connection?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

When a mother loses her child, she's — highly agitated from strong emotion. a scene is if there's lots of action with little order.