I think is D but C is correct too!!
Falling Action. It goes exposition (the explanation), rising action (the events that lead up to the character achieving his goals), the climax, the falling action (when the goal has been met and the plot is wrapping up), and the resolution (a type of "they lived happily ever after" and is truly finishing up everything).
The answer is: A. obsession
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In the excerpt from "Moby D*ck," by Herman Melville, the narrator describes Captain Ahab's determination and fixation to kill the whale that caught his leg. Thus, Ishmael mentions Ahab's upright posture, his coraugeous persistance, and devoted look towards a dangerous task like encountering the whale.
The poem "Ozymandias" written by Percy Busshe speaks in a traditional, simple manner how much the human aspiration to their power and material achievements and wealth provides for themselves an eternity. Thinking that their material, earthly power is immortal, tells how much they cheat themselves, in the inability to understand what is eternal. Even the Ozymandias's statue, which is material and transient, is decaying, more durable than them.
The answer is: C.