With words such as dead, blood, treacherous, savage, prey, murdered, and strangled, the author creates a picture of the ocean that is

The options for this question are:

A) calm and cool.

B) rough and stormy.

C) smooth and silky.

D) cruel and bloodthirsty.

D) cruel and bloodthirsty.

Explanation: the tone of a story, a poem, a paragraph or even a sentence, is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the subject, the audience or the characters of the text. The tone of a text is expressed by the author's word choices, in this case, the given words (dead, blood, treacherous, savage, prey, murdered, and strangled) are used to create a negative tone, and a picture of the ocean that is cruel and bloodthirsty.

the answer is emerged from.

orpheus descended to hades, the world of the death to rescue eurydice. no mortal had ever done this before him, he survived because he was protected by the gods. the word "underworld" gives us a clue, he emerged from it like a whale emerges form sea for exemple.