And indeed there will be timefor the yellow smoke that slides along the street, rubbing its back upon the window panes; there will be time, there will be timeto prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of handsthat lift and drop a question on your plate; which phrase from the excerpt most clearly conveys the speaker's leisurely tone?

The correct answer is:  "...there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate..."

Explanation:

A leisurely tone is used when expressed ideas without haste in an unhurried way. There are different forms to identify how an author uses a leisurely tone in his or her speech. The easiest to do is to take a look at the grammatical structure in his or her statements. The most complex it is, the more requires thinking over that topic. That is usually carried out when the author is calm.

In that case:

"...there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate...";

rhymes create and plate which mostly shows the author is speaking in a leisurely tone.

a and c

explanation:

answer; proclamation of 1763;