This isn't an answer. There's nothing italicized
<span>They felt both frustrated and hopeful.</span>
The answer is B. "Frightened."
You can draw the conclusion that the author is trying to communicate a frightened tone by the diction of the stanza. The following line of the text states: "In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright..." This is a very telling detail that supports the idea that the author's tone was meant to be frightening.
Water;the most important thing on earth, we use it to survive. Though there is not much of it to drink, there is a bunch of salt water. If we do not have water we will die. ( please don’t use this, it’s late and I wanna help so just use the idea, not the paragraph)