ISEE Upper Level Reading Comprehension Quiz
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TONE, MOOD, AND ATTITUDE
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Rain slid down the station windows in wavering lines, blurring the platform lights into pale smudges. The air smelled of wet metal and coffee from a kiosk that had already begun to close. Nora stood under the awning with her suitcase, watching the tracks shine like dark ribbons.
The loudspeaker crackled, then announced her train in a voice that sounded tired. People shifted in small, restless clusters. A child's balloon bobbed against the ceiling, its bright color somehow out of place.
"You'll write," her brother said, though it came out more like a question. He tried to smile, but it didn't hold. Nora nodded and felt a familiar ache spread through her chest, slow and heavy. She remembered summers when they raced bicycles down this same street, certain that nothing would ever change.
The train arrived with a long sigh of brakes. Doors opened. Warm air spilled out, smelling faintly of fabric and electricity. Nora hugged her brother, and the hug lasted a beat longer than usual, as if neither of them wanted to be the first to let go. When they finally separated, his hands hovered near her shoulders, uncertain, then dropped.
Nora stepped aboard. From the window she watched him grow smaller as the cars began to move. The station lights slid past in a steady drift. Rain kept falling, patient and persistent, until the platform dissolved into gray.
Question: What mood is created by the author's use of imagery in the passage?
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