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which lines from the poem show that the sea is cruel but has a facade of beauty and warmth?

a) the dead leaves are varnished
with color like blood

b) the sea creeps to pillage,
she leaps on her prey

c) to wash her long fingers
in silvery light

d) a savage beguiler
in sheathings of silk

D) A savage beguiler

In sheathings of silk

The lines chosen must show that the sea is cruel but it seems as though it's not. The word beguile means to enchant something in a deceptive way. By describing the sea as a savage beguiler, it gives the sea the image of something that is fierce, but not seen as fierce. It's seemingly calm beauty, like silk, tricks one into thinking that it is calm.

The other options do not work. Option A only creates a negative image. Option B also only creates a negative image of the sea as a predator. Option C personifies the sea as having fingers, but doesn't show it's cruel nature.

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