Select the sentence that best represents effective diction for a romantic story:

a. she put her hand on the doorknob, but she hesitated, her fingers trembling and her heart racing.
b. the trail of clues had led her here, where she knew the culprit had to be hiding out from the police.
c. there was no time to lose; she grabbed the doorknob and yanked the door open to get away.
d. finally she had arrived, and she knew she only had to reach out and knock to meet her happy fate.

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.

The bonus army constructed from any materials they could find.

Then, from heaven, the voice of the god called to gilgamesh: "hurry, attack, attack humbaba while the time is right, before he enters the depths of the forest, before he can hide there and wrap himself in his seven auras with their paralyzing glare. he is wearing just one now. attack him! now! " –gilgamesh: a new english translation, stephen mitchell identify a feature of epic poetry in the passage. in three to four sentences, explain its impact on the epic's plot.