Answer:
C. The awareness of impending death came about slowly, subtly
Explanation:
According to the given excerpt, the comment from Dickinson about expecting death in the line “since then — tis centuries — and yet/ feels shorter that the day/ I first surmised the horses head/ were toward eternity" is the awareness of impending death came about slowly, subtly.
This is because he slowly realizes as he feels shorter that day and finding out that the horses egad was toward eternity.
<span>The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.</span>
The mood of the excerpt is C. Unsettled.
<h3>What is Mood?</h3>
This refers to the general atmosphere of a story that is created through the diction, tone of the author, etc.
Hence, we can see that from the given text, there is the narration of the constant talking by an aunt and how she was hurriedly shuffling papers to the narrator and the author uses a fast pace and this creates an unsettled mood.
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