This passage reads like a script for stage or film.
The medium that would best interpret this passage would be film.
1) Camera focus in on Mrs Peters' eyes slowly turn to meet Mrs Hale's eyes.
2) Mrs Hales' eyes moving to spot the hidden box.
3) Sound of a knob turning with camera showing closeup of knob turning
Panning in & out on eyes and knob is best achieved through use of a camera in film.
As a noun, a harangue is a long, aggressive speech.
As a verb, to harangue is to teach someone in an aggressive, unfriendly manner.
The answer that best fits this description is B. to give a pompous speech to.
Sam is a little fish. He lives in the sea. He is very lonely. He wants to have a friend. The friend looks like him. Sam sees an ink fish. The ink fish has eight legs. He doesn't look like Sam. So Sam goes away. Sam meets a shark. He wants to say hello to the shark. The shark opens his big mouth. Sam runs away quickly. Sam is tired and hungry. He wants to have a rest. Then he sees a round fish. She says to him. "Hello! Would you like to be my friend?" Sam answers: "Of course! But you are round. I am flat." The round fish days: "But we are both fishes."
Sam thinks and says, "You are right. Let's be friends." They become good friends.
C- it joins nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, or sentences
she is not brave and a has low Ambition