How does the word predilection add to the effect of the following passage? “Maybe princesses are in fact a sign of progress, an indication that girls can embrace their predilection for pink without compromising strength or ambition; that, at long last, they can ‘have it all.’”

A) The word suggests a tragic tone.

Explanation: in the excerpt we can see the description of a woman and her son, and also the brief description of a situation: that the woman's husband and her two older sons had been deported by mistake, separating her from her family. After that, we see the word shattered, which gives us the idea of how this situation really affected her, so the answer is that the word suggests a tragic tone.