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Read the excerpt from "Surrendering” by Ocean Vuong.
From the gardening shows my grandmother watched, I’d learned the words for flowers I had never seen in person: foxglove, lilac, lily, buttercup. "If a boy could dream of golden fields, full of lilacs, tulips, marigolds . . .”
Which best describes the tone created by the author’s diction in this excerpt?
observant
reflective
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The diction ("I’d learned," "flowers I had never seen," "If a boy could dream," "golden fields") conveys memory, longing, and introspection rather than simple detached observation.
The diction ("I’d learned," "flowers I had never seen," "If a boy could dream," "golden fields") conveys memory, longing, and introspection rather than simple detached observation.
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