Read this excerpt from the exposition in "The Monkey's Paw." Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed
ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting
his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even
provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting
placidly by the fire.
What is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this
sentence?

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11 d

12 a

13 d

14 b

explanation:

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.