Read the following passage from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle:

Above my head the lantern swung grotesquely, the men’s possessions skittered about like billiard balls, trunks rolled helter-skelter. The watch was scrambling up.

Excerpts from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, copyright © 1990 by Avi. Used by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. All rights reserved.

Mark all that apply. What is the effect of Avi’s word choice in this passage?

It conveys a sense of excitement.
It conveys a sense of danger.
It conveys a sense of being out of control.
It conveys a sense of being calm.