it's D. Formal and Scholarly
Chugged is the main word that should give it away. It is kind of exaggerating the car going up the mountain. I assume it would be a hyperbole.
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Here is an example of a eulogy for a dying river:
Let us remember that all things come to an end even the most beautiful and useful of things, like this river. You were once the most beautiful and useful of things to both living and nonliving things. You provided the fish a place to grow and live and the plants the water to survive. You helped form the clouds and cool the forest. But now it's over, you flow no more but our tears do. You may be dying but you will live through the animals and plants you've helped and the rain you've provided.
Well, matrimonial is used when speaking of weddings. so the matrimonial debrisis the problems during the walking down the aisle. that is what it means. hope this helps.
In Christopher Marlowe's "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus", Faustus begin to believe that human salvation became impossible is because of the fact that he believed in Predestination. It's a theory wherein humans are already fated ever since they are born, and due to the evil in the world, he deemed that it's actually impossible to save humankind.