Eagerly i wished the morrow; —vainly i had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost lenore—
which of these best describes the tone in these lines?
a. scary
b. slow
c. sad
d. casual

C) Sad.

Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. In the given lines we can see that the speaker is using a sad tone, he describes to be experiencing a lot of sorrow because of the lost of Lenore.

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