Question

3. What is meant by "Stark Terror"?
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Answer 1

Answer:

sheer; utter; downright; unrelieved: stark terror. Archaic strong; powerful.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

"Stark Terror" refers to the extreme fear and anxiety that the narrator was experiencing as he was drowning .

• the word is taken from the story ,Deep Water.
• here , the narrator, Douglas went into the pool for the first time which was about nine meters deep.
• however,it seemed ninety meters  to the narrator and he was panicking even before he could touch the bottom of the pool.
• the terror struck him and he was feeling paralyzed.

• this intense fear of water is referred as stark terror which continued to persist in the narrator .