I believe the correct answer is to help the reader visualize a view where water and sky are difficult to tell apart.
The author is trying to portray an image where the water and the sky are somehow blending into each other - you can't tell where one ends and the other one begins, because both items are colored similarly - various shades of blue.
If I were to guess I'd say C. It sounds like the only logical solution.
The correct answers are 1, 3 and 4. Charles Darwin's work introduced a new focus on Realism, inspired Naturalism in art and ushered in Impressionism. Naturalistic writers and artists were inspired by the evolution theory of Charles Darwin. Naturalism was developed as a new branch of Realism. Its basic theory is that one's heredity and social environment determine one's character and influence the action of its subjects. Naturalism was a novel and stricter realism. Degas, Monet and Cezanne, three of the most important impressionist artists, were deeply influenced by the Darwinian theories.
The author of "The Canterbury Tales" is (answer D. Chaucer) Geoffrey Chaucer.
<span>"The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.</span>
Citation: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1838.Geoffrey_Chaucer
(I put the citation because of plagiarism and copyright issues)
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