Question

Select the passage that has a more threatening tone.

A. They could feel the cold as it crept in through the cracks, reaching out for them with its icy, death-dealing fingers; and they would crouch and cower, and try to hide from it, all in vain. It would come, and it would come; a grisly thing, a specter born in the black caverns of terror.
B. The clouds hung low over the skylight and were either gray or mud-color, or dropping heavy rain. At four o'clock in the afternoon, even when there was no special fog, the daylight was at an end. If it was necessary to go to her attic for anything, Sara was obliged to light a candle.​

Answer 1

A. They could feel the cold as it crept in through the cracks, reaching out for them with its icy, death-dealing fingers; and they would crouch and cower, and try to hide from it, all in vain. It would come, and it would come; a grisly thing, a specter born in the black caverns of terror.

Step-by-step explanation:

Tone is the attitude, sound or vibration of how the writer or narrator feels. It presents the mood or circumstances of the setting or a character.

In the given two passages, passage A has a more threatening tone. This can be known by the use of words such as "icy, death-dealing fingers", "cower" "grisly" or "black caverns of terror". These groups of words present a dangerous, evil, frightening image that can help the reader understand the tone of the narration.

Thus, the correct answer is option A.