What steps best a reader determine the central idea of a text? select three options.

I think what steps help the reader determine the main idea of a text is writing a short paragraph/summary about the text to remember what they are reading, finding the theme(s) or the lesson(s) of the text to show what is supposed to be given out from that text or last using the character interactions even to find how the story goes along whether it's bad or good.

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.