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Answer: D. Strangles/Creep.
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 both the given excerpts we can indentify a disturbing tone, created by their word choices, the words that best express this tone are "strangles" in the first excerpt, and "creep" in the second one.