How does the author's syntax contribute to the tone of the text? A. The arrangement develops a humorous tone about acquiring luxuries. B. The arrangement emphasizes a frustrated tone about retaining luxuries. C. The arrangement emphasizes a grave tone toward amassing wealth. D. The arrangement develops a severe tone toward accumulating wealth.

The answer is "impossible to perceive" because of it tricking or trying to show away from what it really means.

What u have here is a dangling do not have a subject that goes with ur verb. you do not have a " doer " for the actionhaving read the children a bedtime story, the house was shut down for the night.  so who read the children the story ? it wasn't the house. so we have to add a doer of the action to revise this sentence.having read the children a bedtime story, jill shut the house down for the night. < == this is the revised sentence.