I think the answer is "they sicken and die too quickly...". Have a look at the first line in the bit we're given.
A universal theme is an idea that applies to anyone regardless of cultural differences or geographic location. it is also<span> a generalization about life or human nature they deal with basic human concerns.
</span> so the answer would be the first option.
In general, close reading helps the reader to truly understand a text. Part of close reading is what is called analysis, which literally means to dissect or look at all the parts to understand the whole. Through close reading, a reader dissects a text thus penetrating through its layers of meaning.
The figure of speech used in the phrase "babes of the sea" is (D) a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in a comparison. This comparison is made between two things that are not related but have a certain characteristic in common. In this case, "babes" is not used in its original meaning but the author refers to his feeling of insignificance when compared to the nature.
<span>My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical representation of the period when he was in slavery by Frederick Douglass. He accounts all the experiences and the misleading he has gone through that period. In he said that "I had been cheated" because he did not get his freedom and made to believe that the slave owners are doing this as actions ordered by god.</span>
