Diction

1. "I only climbed on the spare spar and leaned over the rail as far as I could, to bring my eyes nearer to the mystery floating alongside." 

2. Opaque: not able to be seen through; not transparent 

The side of the ship made it hard to see part of the ocean clearly

Elongated: usually in relation to its width 

But I saw something a certain size and plae floating very close to the ladder 

Phosphorescent: when something glows with light 

But I could form a guess a faint flash of glowing light 

Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony 

With a gasp I saw revealed to my state  a pair of feet, the long legs, a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish pale glow 

3. The authors elevated tone makes it fell much more suspenseful and mysterious, while paraphrasing the passage diminished that and made it sound boring. 

4.   " a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish cadaverous glow." Cadaverous describes the mans glow 

"As he hung by the ladder, like a resting swimmer, the sea lightning played about his limbs at every stir, and he appeared ghastly, silvery, fishlike. Ghastly and silvery describe how he appeared and was fishlike

"The side of the ship made an opaque belt of shadow in the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea." Opaque describes what kind of shadow the boat castes 

"And that I suppose he raised up his face , a dimly pale oval in the shadow of the ships side.." Dimly pale oval describes how the mans face look

 5. I think the author left the ship and  crew nameless because he wanted to add to the mystery of this story 

6. The title means to share something with someone, but secretly. 

Cadaverous denotation: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony

Connotation: gives a negative feeling of death or sickness 

Darkling denotation: of or relating to growing darkness 

Connotation: negative feeling of impending doom 

Pale denotation: light in color or having little color 

Connotation: sounds like it could be associated with a corpse 

Phosphorescence denotation: when something glows with light

Connotation: something supernatural 

Ghastly denotation: causing great horror or fear

Connotation: suspenseful and scary 

Headless denotation: not having a head 

Connotation: supernatural 

Fishlike denotation: like a fish 

Connotation: cold, slimy, shady