Answer: D) Tone.
Explanation: The tone of a poem, a story or even a sentence is the attitude of the text (the author's or speaker's attitude) towards the subject, theme, audience or even the characters. There are many differents kinds of tones: happy, sad, angry, positive, negative, objective, subjective, etc. According to that definition, the correct answer is the corresponding to option D.
a. sound of rats’ feet on broken glass
Climate change will soon end our earth if we do nothing about it and it’s affects can not be reversed or turned back