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The correct answer is B. (9). It should read it's, not its.
Answer:
The parenthesis is a punctuation mark denoted by an upright curved line. Two parentheses, ( ), are paired to set off text from the rest of a sentence.
If you mean tone, then the tone is going to be quite saddening or angering seeing as how the lottery is talking about a lottery of death.