Answer:
D
Explanation:
The speaker provides context and information and observations which obviate his interest in the snake.
What best conveys loneliness in this excerpt is the phrase "the correspondent thought that he was the one man afloat on all the oceans."
We are told in the text that the correspondent was responsible for a leak in what is probably the keel of the boat, enabling water to pour in ("a crest came with a roar and a swash into the boat"). However, he seems to be the only one really bothered by it, as the other characters don't let it trouble their sleep. The correspondent remains the only character awake on the boat and since they are in the middle of the ocean, it feels particularly lonely, as though he were alone at sea: "one man afloat on all the oceans".
supports the view that people thought the Civil War would be over much quicker than it actually did.
Bulleted lists take things step by step. Each bullet should isolate a fact.
Reading a bullet list is simple in that it provides the reader with mere tidbits of information, which helps a lot of people (myself included!) retain information!
So bulleted lists a) isolate facts by b) stripping them to the bare essentials. It's much easier to understand something without all the jargon!