Which phrase does the author use to create a suspenseful mood?

A.

"The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game."

B.

"A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; "

C.

"The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way"

D.

" ... and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders."

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Philip Carson

27 January, 09:05

Which phrase does the author use to create a suspenseful mood?

A.

"The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game."

B.

"A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; "

C.

"The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way"

D.

" ... and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders."

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Zoie Combs · Answer 1

D.

" ... and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders."

The language creates an uncertainty about what's going to happen and immerses the reader in the present moment, so that he/she feels as if she were in the story, watching for marauders as well.