The sensory details in the excerpt evoke a sense of...:
...awe and wonder.
There's description of mysterious lights, as well as flares and sparks. The adjective choices show awe and wonder: great, dead white, intense, white-hot, brilliant... Plus, there is a quite meaningful direct comparison here: "it seemed as though anything caught in their range would be made still, like figures in a game of living statues." The fact the author talks about "living statues" also shows awe and wonder.
Answer:
The animals were able to take over the farm because the elderly owner was a drunkard and careless.
Odysseus goes inside the cave of Polyphemus to see if he can get any presents from him or if there is anything nice to steal from his cave.
Hope this helps :)
The answer is C since it is the only one that applies to the presence of something undesirable as a negative connotations.
