THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (B).READ THE PASSAGE AS A WHOLE TO GETTHE TO...

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The correct answer is (B).

Read the passage as a whole to get

the tone, or how the author feels toward her subject. Apply

each of the answers and determine which word does not fit,

because this is a

not

question. The overall tone is a bit dark,

choice (A), which the reader can infer from the subject and

diction. The author is being introspective, choice (C), and is

sharing with the reader her personal experiences in writing the

novel, choice (D), and the accompanying emotions, choice (E).

That leaves choice (B), chilling. Although the author tells how

she came to write a very chilling tale, the tone of this selection

itself is not frightening. Choice (B) is the exception, and thus

the correct answer.