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