The correct answer is A. You are right.
My best guess is C because a<span>n </span>active verb <span>is when the </span>verb<span> is clearly the subject of the sentence.</span>
Answer:
<em>It shows how the elderly struggle to adapt to the rapid pace of modern society.</em>
Explanation:
The novel is a work written by Ntozake Shange in 1985 about a young African-American young girl and her struggles living as a black.
Summer rain is imagery a type of figurative language. And what figurative language can do to a story is set the tone, and when it is imagery it can create the setting.