Select the correct text in the passage. Naturalist writers used setting to enhance the theme of unpredictability in nature. Which four phrases in this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "The
Open Boat" reflect the mercilessness of the sea?
None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves
were of the hue of slate save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed
and widened, and dipped and rose and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks
Many a man ought to have a bathtub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously
abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. which choice best describes the conflict in this poem? the winds are rocking the boat. a man is thrown into the sea. a woman doesn’t want to let go of her dead lover. someone is crying in the darkness.

The development of new inventions in the field of space travel seemed rapid. how does the word rapid function in a sentence?

Which link would readers of this dictionary entry click if they wanted more information about the historical origins of the word language