The correct answers are B. Descriptive (first blank or question) and D. Dominant mood (second blank or question)
Explanation:
Descriptive writing is a way of writing that implies creating a picture in the readers' mind about one person, place, situation or other by carefully using words to describe all the details of the object the author is writing about. Because of this descriptive writing uses vivid details, figurative language (analogies or metaphors) and precise language (not vague). Thus, a type of writing that paints with words is B. Descriptive.
On the other hand, the dominant mood in writing refers to the main feeling or atmosphere of the text. This affects the writer election of words and style by transmitting one particular feeling or atmosphere to the reader. It means mood determines the way the reader will feel while reading a particular description. Thus, cheerfulness, sadness, or nostalgia are D. Dominant moods as it is related to the feeling the writer creates for the reader in a description.
1. A type of writing that paints with words is generally known as descriptive writing. Its primary objective is to describe something in such a way that a visual image is created in the mind of the reader/speaker.
2. Cheerfulness, sadness, or nostalgia in descriptive writing is known as the dominant mood. It basically describes the mood of the story.
I would say that A) even the ice-hard heart of Hades melted - uses hyperbole, because he didn't really have an ice heart, and it didn't really melt, it is exaggeration.
