Highlight concrete details in this passage. Giuseppe and I held tightly to Stepfather's hands, while Liberta and Helvetia clung to Mother. Passengers all about us were crowding against the rail. Jabbered conversations, sharp cries, laughs and cheers - a steadily rising din filled the air. Mothers and fathers lifted up babies so that they too could see, off to the left, the Statue of Liberty.

—Immigrant Kids,

Russell Freedman

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Based on the concrete details in this passage, which word best describes how the immigrants felt?

excited, disapointed , exasted ,fameshed

Which choice best describes the effect words such as "clung," "jabbered conversations," and "sharp cries" have on readers?

a sense of joy, fearless about the unknown, vibraition inthusiation, mixture of anxitey and thrill