Read the passage from the poem "El Olvido," by Julia Ortiz Cofer. It is a dangerous thing to forget the climate of your birthplace, to choke out the voices of dead relatives when in dreams they call you by your secret name. Which best describes the tone of the passage? confused serious mournful angry

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Tessa Dominguez

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26 September, 18:04

Read the passage from the poem "El Olvido," by Julia Ortiz Cofer. It is a dangerous thing to forget the climate of your birthplace, to choke out the voices of dead relatives when in dreams they call you by your secret name. Which best describes the tone of the passage? confused serious mournful angry

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Answer: The correct answer is c) Mournful

Explanation:

The tone of this sentence, although explicitly expresses a certain level of anger, is meant to express the narrator's longing for not only her deceased loved ones but also how life used to be when she was a child.