Which word best describes the tone of this passage kovaloff, the member of the municipal committee, awoke fairly early that morning, and made a droning noise — "brr! brr! " — through his lips, as he always did, though he could not say why. he stretched himself, and told his valet to give him a little mirror which was on the table. he wished to look at the heat-boil which had appeared on his nose the previous evening; but to his great astonishment, he saw that instead of his nose he had a perfectly smooth vacancy in his face. thoroughly alarmed, he ordered some water to be brought, and rubbed his eyes with a towel. sure enough, he had no longer a nose! then he sprang out of bed, and shook himself violently! no, no nose any more! he dressed himself and went at once to the police superintendent. a angry b mournful c distressed d amusing

D) amusing.

Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. From the given options, the word that best describes the tone of the passage is "amusing" because of elements like how the speaker made a droning noise when he awoke and the fact that he realized that he didn't have a nose anymore.

the following key ideas correctly express the key sentence.

restate key idea: most people can learn to swim in ten short lessons.

restate key idea: the majority of water-accident victims require mouth-to-mouth breathing.

restate key idea: an empty, tightly closed gallon jug will support a tired swimmer.  

restate key idea: first aid is to prevent accidents as well as assist in rescue.

explanation: the key idea needs to have the same topic as the key sentence (drowning and safety).

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it