Question

select the passage that has a more melodramatic tone. oh, this journey! it was two hours cut clean out of his life, two hours in which he might have done so much, so much—written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book. an ocean voyage is an excellent time for discussion. with no eavesdroppers around, we could loaf in our deck chairs and talk and talk. our absolute lack of facts only made the field of discussion wider. adapted from aldous huxley, crome yellow and charlotte perkins gilman, herland

Explanation:

The first passage uses exaggerated language like "two hours cut clean out of his life" and laments the lost potential of those two hours in a highly - emotional way. The second passage is more matter - of - fact about an ocean voyage and discussion.

Answer:

Oh, this journey! It was two hours cut clean out of his life, two hours in which he might have done so much, so much—written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book.