Read the first sentence of the selection.
Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth bank, where a dim and little-traveled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland.
The author’s syntax and use of repetition establishes a tone that is ––
A. cynical
B. malicious
C. foreboding
D. tranquil