Which of the following passages from the morning of june 28 1948 and the lottery best shows how shirley jackson's specific word choices contribute to the story's tone?
a. I went on picking up the mail every morning, pushing my daughter up and down the hill in her stroller, anticipating pleasurably the check from The New Yorker, and shopping for groceries.
b. The weather stayed nice and it looked as though it was going to be a good summer.
c. No, I said, nothing in particular; it was just a story I wrote.
d. Then, on June 28, The New Yorker came out with my story.

The answer is option A. I went on picking up the mail every morning, pushing my daughter up and down the hill in her stroller, anticipating pleasurably the check from The New Yorker, and shopping for groceries.

Explanation:

Option A is the correct answer because the tone of the sentence best matches the tone of Shirley Jackson's writting, The Lottery. The tone of the lottery is light, fun, and peaceful, and option A shows a very similar tone by adding details of fun and peacefulness such as "pushing my daughter up and down the hill" and "anticipating pleasurably the check from the New Yorker".

chibuikeumeh chibuikeumeh · Answer 2 · 2022-06-01T15:55:43+02:00

The passage which best shows how Shirley Jackson's specific word choices contribute to the story's tone is option A.

What is a tone?

This reflects a writer's attitude towards a subject matter in a literary work.

Hence, we can see that the tone of the lottery is light and peaceful and option A clearly shows the same tone as Shirley Jackson's, as the excerpt says "anticipating pleasurably the check from The New Yorker".