Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream—by these Three Queens with crowns of gold—and from them rose A cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars, What does the personification "a cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars” emphasize to the reader?

The cry is described as if it could shiver all the way to the stars, making the queens’ grief seem intense and far-reaching. This personification emphasizes their sadness, not their dreams or why they are out at night. The correct choice is “the sadness of the queens.”

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