The speaker feels as if it tragic and this is being shown the exaggeration and use of a hyperbole.
From what i read it would have to be D
What will your audience get out of reading the novel or short story you are advertising?
In the Odyssey, Eurycleia washes the feet of the beggar because A) the beggar reminds her of Odysseus, and she suspects that it is him.
In fact, it was him all along, pretending to be a beggar so that he could get closer to his wife Penelope.