Explicit is defined as clearly expressed and leaving no question or ambiguity as to meaning. It is expressed without any implications and which leaves no room for explanation being distinct.
In H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, the basic
assumption about life in the future which the Time Traveller makes when he
arrives among the Eloi is:
c. that the future must somehow be an improvement
on the present
<span>The Time Traveller compares the present and
future, notices the present dilemma, and concludes the possible improvement that will
happen in the future.</span>
It's the problem or problems in the story.
The poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is made by Langston Hughes where likened his soul as deep as rivers. The term dusky was associted in the poem to rivers which he described repeatedly throughout as ancient and old. In this poem, the term dusky is referred to the age of the river. Answer is b. age.