That face of his i do remember well; yet, when i saw it last, it was besmear'd as black as vulcan in the smoke of war: a bawbling vessel was he captain of, for shallow draught and bulk unprizable; with which such scathful grapple did he make with the most noble bottom of our fleet, that very envy and the tongue of loss cried fame and honour on him. what's the matter?

Hi! I wish we had more information about where is this excerpt from, who is the author, etc. in order to make a better interpretation of it. Anyways, I'll try to help you by giving you the best answer possible with the facts we have here.

Explanation:

The task is asking for an explanation on the matter, so I would say, after carefully reading these lines, that the matter here is that this man, the captain of "a bawbling vessel" was different from who he used to be, according to the speaker. He was "darker", something had changed him, some situation that we don't know of, that is not described in the excerpt changed him for good, a "loss" that "cried fame and honour on him".

It is very difficult to understand what happened exactly, but we can see that this man is damaged and has become a dark soul.

Hope this helps!

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

i think the answer is d.