I'm pretty sure it is Theme.
Theme is the central topic of the text. passage, story, or anything else. So it may possibly also be the same for the underlying meaning and universal truth...but again, I am not sure.
The answer is A: sinking because gothic means something’s gloomy and eerie. Sinking is the only word that is gloomy and eerie. Hope this helped!
1. pentameter
2.dactilyc
3.irony
4.personification
5. simile
6.rhyme scheme
7.language
8.true rhyme
9.slant ryhme
10.trochaic
I'm not sure about 3 and 10
Answer:
His business begins to fail when his patron dies, so he decides to go to sea again and travels for six years. Although he has planned to return home at the end of this time, he decides to accept one last job on a ship called the Antelope.
