"<span>Determine the cause of the distraction" sounds like the best answer.</span>
"<span>Only this and nothing more. And so faintly you came tapping, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."</span>
Answer:
b- patriotism through consumerism
I think it is the verb. Because the verb represents an action or a state of being.
It would be D because we know more from that character.