Read the passage.

excerpt from "a ghost story" in sketches new and old by mark twain

i took a large room, far up broadway, in a huge old building whose upper stories had been wholly unoccupied for years until i came. the place had long been given up to dust and cobwebs, to solitude and silence. i seemed groping among the tombs and invading the privacy of the dead, that first night i climbed up to my quarters.…

how do the words tombs, invading, and dead shape and enhance the overall tone of this passage?

they create an exciting tone.

they create a sorrowful tone.

they create a comical tone.

they create a threatening tone.

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced