The correct answer is "I can't believe he has <em>swum </em>to the island." Swum is the past principle of "swim." However, if you drop the word <em>has </em>the answer would be D and the sentence would appear much more grammatically appealing. :)
the deeper he goes into Hell, the lower levels of it, the sins become worse. Starting from Limbo, where the sinners haven't committed anything that serious, until he gets to the ninth circle where the worst sinners are.
The answer is:
The poet uses repetition to highlight how much water surrounds the sailors.
Repetition is a literary and rhetorical device which involves the recurrence of a word or phrase for emphasis, to add intensity and to make the speaker's ideas and thoughts more straightforward.
In the passage from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the author Samuel Taylor Coleridge makes use of repetition to make more forceful the fact that the sailor is thirsty in a motionless ship, in the middle of water but unable to consume it.
