This question has two parts. First, answer Part 1. Then, answer Part 2. Part 1 Read this excerpt from Night . We all got up. We pulled our soaked blankets tighter around our shoulders. And we tried to take a few steps, to shuffle back and forth, in place. Suddenly, a cry rose in the wagon, the cry of a wounded animal. Someone had just died. Others, close to death, imitated his cry. And their cries seemed to come from beyond the grave. Soon everybody was crying. Groaning. Moaning. Cries of distress hurled into the wind and the snow. The lament spread from wagon to wagon. It was contagious. And now hundreds of cried rose at once. The death rattle of an entire convoy with the end approaching. Which phrase best describes the atmosphere created by this paragraph?
The paragraph describes people dying, crying out in pain, and groaning in the freezing snow. Phrases such as “wounded animal,” “cries of distress,” and “death rattle” create an atmosphere of misery. “A feeling of connection” may seem possible because the cries spread among the prisoners, but the passage emphasizes their suffering.
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