Question 5 of 5 Which use of pacing best creates a tone of laziness?
A. With a last yawn, the cat plopped down and slept. He slept in the
sun.
O B. The eyes of the cat were yellow slits. He closed his eyes and slept
in the sun.
c. The cat lounged. The sun shone. He scanned the room and went
to sleep.
D. The cat lounged in the afternoon sun, his heavy eyelids just barely
lifted.

Read this sentence from "the wife's lament

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

4. interpret how do the speaker's descriptions of and feelings about the wind change as the poem progresses? how does this shift show a change in the tone of the poem?