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'That year the harvest was sad like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothes to a tree branch and hanged himself.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

a

frustration

b

sympathy

c

dilemma

d

sadness

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ADRIAN_006
2 years ago

well it's actually sympathy
sympathy has an advanced meaning with coverage of what sadness means
thank you

Cuchella
3 years ago

The answer for this question is sadness and it said sympathy on this app
This can be misleading for students

Maximumwell
2 years ago

The answer should be sadness

The_Mid_Epoch
2 months ago

sympathy, because that's how the reader feels in relaion to the characters' sufferings. The reader should feel sorry for them concerning how poor theiir harvest was. Tone, on the other hand would be sadness.

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