Read the excerpt from the diary of a young girl.

so there we were, father, mother and i, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. the people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself.

what is the mood of this excerpt?

gloomy
panicked
angry
indifferent

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,