Question

the given paragraph, an extract from John Steinbeck's
Read the give
Grapes of Wrath, carefully.
sitional phrases used by the writer to convey the dram
preposition
tempo, small drops an
om John Steinbeck's famous novel The
ead the paragraph. Identify and underline all the
writer to convey the dramatic return of rain after
a long, painful drought.

Over the high coast mountains and over the valleys the gray clouds marched
he wind blew fiercely and silently, high in the air, and it swished in the brush, and it roared in the forest.
The clouds came in brokenly, in puffs, in folds, in gray crays and they
nd settled low over the west. And then the wind stopped and left the clouds deep and sold. The
lolds, in gray crays and they piled in together
rain began with gusty showers, pauses and downpours; and then gradually it settled to a single
small drops and a steady beat, rain that was gray to see through, raw that
to evening. And at first the dry earth sucked the moisture down and blackened. For two days the
earth drank the rain, until the earth was full. Then puddles formed, and in the low places little
Jakes formed in the fields. The muddy lakes rose higher, and the steady rain whipped the shining
water. At last the mountains were full, and the hillsides spilled into the streams, built them to
freshets, and sent them roaring down the canyons in
n the canyons into the valleys. The rain beat on steadily. And
the streams and the little rivers edged up to the bank sides and worked at willows and tree roots,
bent the willows deep in the current, cut out the roots of cotton-woods and brought down the
trees. The muddy water whirled along the bank sides and crept up the banks until at last it spilled
over, into the fields, into the orchards, into the cotton patches where the black stems stood. Level
fields became lakes, broad and gray, and the rain whipped up the surfaces. Then the water poured
over the highways, and cars moved slowly, cutting the water ahead, and leaving a boiling muddy
wake behind. The earth whispered under the beat of the rain, and the streams thundered under
the churning freshets.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

the given paragraph, an extract from John Steinbeck's

Read the give

Grapes of Wrath, carefully.

sitional phrases used by the writer to convey the dram

preposition

tempo, small drops an

om John Steinbeck's famous novel The

ead the paragraph. Identify and underline all the

writer to convey the dramatic return of rain after

a long, painful drought.

Over the high coast mountains and over the valleys the gray clouds marched

he wind blew fiercely and silently, high in the air, and it swished in the brush, and it roared in the forest.

The clouds came in brokenly, in puffs, in folds, in gray crays and they

nd settled low over the west. And