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Which of the following best describes how the speaker of the poem uses pathos to describe Eben Flood's loneliness, frailty, and age,

A.) "To both of us, I fear, since last it was/We had a drop together. Welcome home!"
B.) "So, for the time, apparently it did,/And Eben evidently thought so too;"
C.) "Where friends of other days had honored him,/A phantom salutation of the dead/Rang thinly till old Eben's eyes were dim."
D.) "Secure, with only two moons listening,/Until the whole harmonious landscape rang--"

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Answer:

C.

Step-by-step explanation:

It evokes feelings of growing old and being alone.

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