How would you describe the tone of this excerpt?

a. informal
b. contemplative
c. formal
d. skeptical

C. Formal

Explanation:

Writings with formal tones often contain descriptive, precise and elegant words and it is totally free of idioms, colloquialism, slang, and contractions. Formal texts also tend to lack active voice sentences, casual words, and it is impersonal.

The passage has all those characteristics as it  lacks idioms, colloquialism, slang, and contractions; it is impersonal (there is no use of first-person pronouns such as ‘I’ or ‘We’), it uses more the passive voice rather than the active one (Some examples are "and it may be disclosed to authorized officials" and "Your Social Security Number (SSN) is needed to keep our record accurate"), and the vocabulary used is not casual.

"get off of your lazy bum and come running with me or i'm dumping this pitcher of water on u " u say with a smile. she thinks your joking so she ignores you about 10 seconds later shes screaming wile water is dripping everywhere you say "here comes the second one! " then you here her say okay, your such a j e r k ! ill be ready in 5 put the pitcher down " she say in an angry tone. and you smile in victory

good enough?

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.