Which best describes the tone of the excerpt? Read the excerpt from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,
The night whispered of distant thunder. It was muggy,
hot, a miserable night for sleeping. Twice I had
awakened hoping that it was time to be up, but each
time the night had been total blackness with no hint of a
graying dawn. On the front porch Mr. Morrison sat
singing soft and low into the long night, chanting to the
approaching thunder. He had been there since the
house had darkened after church, watching and waiting
as he had done every night since Papa had been
injured. No one had ever explained why he watched
and waited, but I knew. It had to do with the Wallaces.
O tense
O joyful
O unkind
O relaxed