The correct answer to this open question is the following.
There is no question here. It is just a statement.
Furthermore, you did not specify if this statement belongs to a novel, a play, a movie, or what?
It is so difficult to help you without the question and the proper references.
However, trying to help you, we can infer that you are talking about the ghost in the play "Hamlet," written by English author William Shakespeare.
Being that the case, yes, the appearance of the ghost helps create an eerie mood and grabs the audience's attention. Shakespeare, being the expert writer he was, knew how to create suspense in the readers. As the ghost does not speak, this adds mystery and suspense to people's minds. The audience would probably want to know more about the ghost in the king's clothes and ist purpose to appear. Most people could think that the ghost is there because it has issues to resolve.
The answer C correctly uses possessive form and is the right answer. It's not A because there is only one George so the apostrophe is in the wrong place. In B, there's not even an apostrophe and it's not clear as to whether there is only one cousin or two or more cousins. In answer D, here should not be an apostrophe for develops.
It seems to me that, the thing wthat <span>the author has done in order to create a tone of seriousness in this piece is </span>a fact that he has used a long sentence with complex syntax to ask the reader to pay close attention.
Even though you haven't shared any options to choose the correct one, I bet this one will suit the question.
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