C is the answer you are looking for. A common idea isn't a moral, the generalization is the Main Idea, but not quite the moral. The thought of the characters almost never have the moral in them. Therefore, C is your answer.
Answer: a block of ice as long as a football field.
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase which identifies in a different way another noun placed beside it. In this case, the phrase "a block of ice as long as a football field" is a phrase that is renaming the noun "glacier." Appositives are usually set off by commas.
Answer:
B: To inform people of the natural beauty in a part of America
Explanation:
If the passage is this than the answer should be that!
As the sun angled, the buttes and coulees, the cliffs and sculptured hills and ravines lost their burned and dreadful look and glowed with yellow and rich browns and a hundred variations of red and silver gray, all picked out by streaks of coal black. It was so beautiful that I stopped near a thicket of dwarfed and wind-warped cedars and junipers, and once stopped I was caught, trapped in color and dazzled by the clarity of the light
It impacts the reader since they don't get to see, feel and think what the other characters are. It leaves the reader in a limited state.
It was a sight to see fish at lunch and sometimes they would jump up and kiss you on the cheek.