I feel like the tone in these few lines is that of stubbornness, so (D).
The author talks about how the fruit struggles and continues to grow despite of everything going against it. This is probably a reference to something else. ( I think the rights of colored people?"
She asked what I was doing when I knocked at the door.
During the winter, I enjoy curling up by the fire, in my pajamas.
The answer is A: sinking because gothic means something’s gloomy and eerie. Sinking is the only word that is gloomy and eerie. Hope this helped!
Answer:
theterm mayday means...an international radio distress signal used by ships and aircraft.
Explanation:
Convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row during the initial emergency declaration ("Mayday mayday mayday") to prevent it being mistaken for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual mayday call from a message about a mayday call.