Answer:
A). Sprawling outlines
Explanation:
The tone is the literary device that illustrates the author's attitude towards a specific subject matter that is reflected through the writing style and choice of words by him to depict the ideas. It expresses and indicates a particular emotion that could be humorous, comic, funny, serious, confusing, cheerful, formal, etc. In the excerpt given, the words that imply a confusing tone is 'sprawling lines' that symbolizes the 'disorder' or 'spread irregularly' which adds a confusing effect to it. Thus, the answer is option A.
