Question: In sentence 4 (reproduced below), which of the following versions of the quoted text is most consistent with the overall tone and style of the passage?

Some writers, such as the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, had firsthand experiences as soldiers that led them to depart from "shopworn stuff that made warfare seem all right" and depict the ugly realities of war.

A) (as it is now)

B) the hyped-up descriptions of war that used to be written

C) he exalted likenesses that typified portrayals of war in bygone days

D) the glorified images of combat seen in older literary works

E) literary depictions from times of yore aggrandizing the fray