The answer is C.
B is wrong because the panel ANNOUNCED the winner
A is wrong because The team HAS an important game at noon
Answer:
Im not sure which lines you are referring to but these lines make it gloomy:
"Once upon a midnight dreary"
"Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;"
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,"
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