The answer is "<span>Extreme awkwardness."</span>
Answer:
Ask a rhetorical question or state an interesting fact.
Explanation:
A lair is a <span>hideout,
a scabbard is a </span><span>sheath for a sword,
a hilt is a handle of a sword,
a complacent person is someone who is not eager to please,
while a covetous person is someone who is eager to obtain or posses,
All of these can be found in dictionaries, and you made a typo by writing liar instead of a lair.
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The answer is B. "Frightened."
You can draw the conclusion that the author is trying to communicate a frightened tone by the diction of the stanza. The following line of the text states: "In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright..." This is a very telling detail that supports the idea that the author's tone was meant to be frightening.
