Read the excerpt from "Surrendering” by Ocean Vuong.
From the gardening shows my grandmother watched, I’d learned the words for flowers I had never seen in person: foxglove, lilac, lily, buttercup. "If a boy could dream of golden fields, full of lilacs, tulips, marigolds . . .”
Which best describes the tone created by the author’s diction in this excerpt?
respectful
practical
observant
reflective