This excerpt has a macabre and tragic tone.
Explanation:
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mask of the Scarlet Death" tells a horror story, lived many years ago, in a distant country. The Scarlet Death, according to the author, decimated part of the population of a kingdom. She says that she was horrible, and whoever touched her had her left side of her body and face bathed in blood, exterminating her victims in 30 minutes. This excerpt describes the time when the people are dying in agony by the scarlet death and this inserts a macabre and tragic tone to the story.
The tone is one of fear of the Red Death.
macabre and suspenseful.
Explanation: this excerpt has a macabre and suspenseful tone because it describes the horrible death of the Prince Prospero and of all the revellers, who died in agony ("...and died each in the despairing posture of his fall"), also, it is suspenseful because even though the murderer is called "the Red Death" we don't know what or who exactly is killing the revellers.
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