The best anser is C - gaunt. Gaunt means thin and looking exhausted, such as when one is old or tired.
The answer can be actually found directly in the poem, which contains the line: 'An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small'. Gaunt is used directly in the poem!
Not effective it gives way too much unnecessary information. For example, it should include what side his coming from, his costume and so on.
In the very, very simplest terms, judging the validity of an argument starts centers around this process:
1) Identify the rhetoric (Lines of Argument) from the actual, formal reasons. Separate the persuasive language from the actual claims to truth and fact.
2) Analyze those reasons (claims to truth and fact) by identifying their logic (often in the Implicit Reasons) and evidence.
3) Test and evaluate the logic and evidence; identify logical errors and ask whether the evidence can and has been tested and objectively, repeatedly, factually verified.
Sheila and Jean are both the indirect object. Book is the direct object