Theme#1: Greed gets you no where in life, but death and mistreatment.
Theme#2: Treat people the way you want to be treated.
Theme#3: Not everyone can rule the world.
D. Personification. Personification is where a nonhuman object is given human qualities in literature. A boat can't actually "resist", "answer", or "mount" something, however a human can. These are all examples of why this is personification.
Question 4, Answer: torpor
The word candles is plural.