With words such as dead, blood, treacherous, savage, prey, murdered, and strangled, the author creates a picture of the ocean that is

The options for this question are:

A) calm and cool.

B) rough and stormy.

C) smooth and silky.

D) cruel and bloodthirsty.

D) cruel and bloodthirsty.

Explanation: the tone of a story, a poem, a paragraph or even a sentence, is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the subject, the audience or the characters of the text. The tone of a text is expressed by the author's word choices, in this case, the given words (dead, blood, treacherous, savage, prey, murdered, and strangled) are used to create a negative tone, and a picture of the ocean that is cruel and bloodthirsty.

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