*Collin’s little sister displayed a talent for reading and mathematics at a very early age. Word bank
-Flippant
-Dismay
-Mar
-Precocious
-Mundane

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.

the answer is d

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the best sentence that shows the best placement for the modifier "on the ice" is the one which contains it in the end of the sentence or in its beggining followed by a comma, that indicates it works as adverbial, dislocated in the sentence.

the girl promptly slid on her rollers on the ice.

on the ice, the girl promptly slid on her rollers.