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the answer may be 1 b 2 b 3 a
Are there answer choices? I’m not sure but one answer would be urbanization.
<span>The option that defines tone is the first one - the attitude of the author. So, the way an author writes in his or her novel is their attitude towards the subject itself, which determines the tone of the novel too. For example, Poe often wrote dark and dreary stories, thus his tone is usually quite pessimistic and mysterious. </span>
<span>Although his sword, Hrunting, loaned to him by Unferth, fails to penetrate the mother's hide, Beowulf discovers a giant magic sword in the cave and is able to kill the mother with it. The sword melts to its hilt after Beowulf uses it to decapitate the corpse of Grendel, which lies nearby.</span>
