Select the correct answer. Read this excerpt from "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane. What effect do the underlined sentences have in showing the feelings of the crew?

The crest of each of these waves was a hill, from the top of which the men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven. It was probably splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber. ("Bully good thing it's an on-shore wind," said the cook; "If not, where would we be? Wouldn't have a show.")

A. They show the anxiety and fear of the crew at the thought of dying at sea.
B. They show the anger of the crew at the thought of being stranded at sea.
C. They show the ironic bitterness of the crew at nature's Indifference to their plight.
D. They show the sadness of the crew at the thought of being left to dle at sea. E They show the sadness of the crew at nature's indifference to their impending deaths.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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don't enter the room

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or you can just ask him to move away from his house

(the answer is d)

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