Which word helps reveal the mood of horror in the
excerpt?
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Read the excerpt from "The Monkey's Paw."
Mr. White dropped his wife's hand, and rising to his
feet, gazed with a look of horror at his visitor. His dry
lips shaped the words, "How much?"
"Two hundred pounds," was the answer.
Unconscious of his wife's shriek, the old man smiled
faintly, put out his hands like a sightless man, and
dropped, a senseless heap, to the floor.
O gazed
O shaped
O faintly
O shriek