<span>The correct answer is C. Tone is best defined as the writer's attitude toward the audience and the subject.
The author's tone is conveyed through the word and details he or she uses. An author's tone might be optimistic, reverent, critical, bitter, or even just matter-of-fact. </span>
The answer is, "The streets glitter with odds and ends of jewelry cast off by the people...with no one inclined to pick them up in a society of such affluence."
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