In paragraph 14, you just need to look at the text and think about what the paragraph is mainly about, then you’ll have your answer
Answer:
A battle between living things to determine the superior mortal.
Explanation:
If the question is about the words "scuttled off" then the accurate answer would be imagery, more specifically, kinesthetic imagery, that is to say, imagery related to the vivid significance of the movement of the crab that implies both a physical gesture that reveals an emotional movement associated to that gesture. In literature, this is called "from motion to emotion". In this particular case, the movement of scuttling off implies that the patience of the crab is about to meet its limits and because the crab does no longer want to be subjected to an uncomfortable situation it translates its emotion into the motion of leaving. Furthermore, the following use of direct speech right after this motion completes the cycle of emotion to motion and then back to emotion.
A and D because stirring could be replaced w the other ones and the sentence would have the same meaning
