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I believe the answer would be: The interpretation moves farther away from the text.
Not having the excerpt here, I can only help you to find the answer. Mood is the feeling you get when you read the passage. Foreboding is fearful or apprehensive. Welcoming is or can be joyful and accommodating or making someone feel comfortable in their surroundings. Sorrowful is sad or mournful. Optimistic is positive, hopeful, and confident about your future. As you read the passage, which of these are you feeling or closely matches your feelings.
The correct answer is "a name for the thing rather than a description of it."
The phrase from the passage that best states its central idea is: “a name for the thing rather than a description of it.” The author, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), writes this excerpt about the Greeks with no clear answer, just an idea of what the answer could be. Francis Bacon wrote the essay “Of The Wisdom of the Ancients” in 1609. He was a prominent English philosopher famous for his using of the scientific method and reasoning.
