The excerpt, The dark game: true spy stories creates a suspenseful and mysterious tone through the words used in the passage. Thus, option c is correct.
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The writer's attitude and feelings toward the topic of the story and its character that gives the idea to the readers is the tone of the passage.
Here the passage seems suspenseful as it uses the words and event settings that illustrate a situation of predicament.
Therefore, the passage describes the suspenseful tone.
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