Realism is transmitting moods and ideas finding mysterious relationships between things the truthful treatment of material to forget what is actual

a.) it provides a clue to solve the mystery.

“way of writing” should be replaced with “writing style"

“idea” should be replaced with “purpose.”

maybe   “people from a long time ago” should be replaced with “elizabethans.”

the correct answer is b:

romeo and company are going to sneak in through the back.  

romeo was depressed because he wanted to try to forget about rosaline and be happy again. so mercutio told him to just go and have fun. and they sneak through the back because capuleto and montague families were enemies.

b) the sentance would correctly look more like this: jerry's team manned the winning boat with a broken rudder.