Answer: D) Tone.
Explanation: The tone of a poem, a story or even a sentence is the attitude of the text (the author's or speaker's attitude) towards the subject, theme, audience or even the characters. There are many differents kinds of tones: happy, sad, angry, positive, negative, objective, subjective, etc. According to that definition, the correct answer is the corresponding to option D.
Scrooge<span> begs to know the identity of the dead man, exasperated in his attempts to understand the lesson of the silent </span>ghost<span>. Suddenly, he finds himself in a churchyard where the spirit points him toward a freshly dug grave. </span>Scrooge<span> approaches the grave and reads the inscription on the headstone: EBENEZER </span>SCROOGE<span>.</span>