Since the participle in this sentence is 'floating', it modifies the noun next to it, which is 'buoys'. So A is the correct answer.
Its a metaphor......................
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Well basically the just changed because overtime the meaning of words have changed. The way we talk and our context clues have shifted because some things from back then don't mean the same as they do now an example of this would be heartburn now it means that a pain in your heart from possibly to much grease, back then it was a way to describe jealousy. It is easy to understand the reading always through context clues! When you use the words around what you are reading the meaning of the word can change to what the author wanted it to mean! I think it only changed because people change and they make everything else that they say mean what they want. It also helps with the development of technology that we can edit text and use sights to help generalize words so that other people see the words how we want them to.
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<span>Montresor, like most of Poe's protagonists, are mentally disturbed and hence unreliable narrators. We are not really sure what wrong Fortunato has done to him but he has obsessed about his revenge. Montresor has let his staff off for the festival so that he can have Fortunato alone. Montresor has left masonry or stonework equipment in the catacombs. He knows just how to tempt Fortunato into following him. Montresor gives some vague detail on how Fortunato has to pay (for his insults) and since he hasn't tried to make things right, he (Montresor) will have to now take matters into his own hands and punish Fortunato himself. Motressor clearly has manic tendencies and delusions of grandeur.</span>