Choose the sentence that best fits the negative connotation for the word blue. a
The man strummed the blues on his acoustic guitar.
b
Emily Dickinson may have suffered from blue moods.
c
The sky was a strange deep blue only experienced on the hottest summer days when even the locusts were dissuaded from their constant diet of destruction.
d
The blue-tick hound ran after the raccoon.

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.