Question

Read the sentence below and answer the following question:

Answer 1

One of bleakness

                            -gradpoint-

Answer 2

It seems to me that, the thing wthat the author has done in order to create a tone of seriousness in this piece is 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.
Regards.