Empirical
<span>based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.</span>
Describing the chariot that bears the human soul as "frugal"
is an example of denotation. The answer is letter B. Denotations
are the precise literal meaning of the word.
The phrases in this excerpt that help to reveal the meaning of the word "blight" are:
The meaning of the term Blight is <em>scourge, whiter, disaste</em>r.
The support of the meaning in the excerpt is "the last bitter hour": the final moments when someone is going to die.
“stern agony, and shroud, and pall": the end of a life using dramatical terms.
"breathless darkness": a kind of disaster that is coming, not to be avoided that paralyzed people.
The last one I couldn’t see it that clearly but it haves to be the last one