The sea is a large body of water
Supporting details can do all of the enlisted options except introduce the main idea. Supporting details are there to support the main idea, so of course they cannot introduce it. They are the result of the main idea, not its creator.
<span>Henry James & Samuel Langhorn Clemens</span>
Jimmy is dependable and faithful
<span>The correct answer is D, 'the author's point of view'. Because depending on the time when an author was writing, he had different points of view. He had one in the classicism, and a completely different one in the modernism. So, the context and the era can tell us a lot of important information about the author's opinions and how he writes the novel/poem, etc.</span>
