Answer:
The correct answer is <u>D</u>: Cedric Yamanaka.
Explanation:
This excerpt is from the short story <em>The Lemon Tree Billiard House</em>, written by Cedric Yamanaka.
In the excerpt, Mitch describes how he became cursed.
One day, he went to a beach house with his father, and he climbed some rocks. His father said to him that the rocks were sacred, so Mitch believed that he had been cursed, because of climbing it.
In this story, Cedric Yamanaka uses a typical Hawaiian dialect, which differs him from other writers.
A gerund phrase it the one that sues present participial form. it is a form of a verb which ends in ING but it acts as a noun. It might be accompanied by modifiers such as adjectives, adverbs or prepositional phrases. Or a compliment like a direct or indirect object. They all would function as a noun.
I would consider this a simile because it is making a comparison. It is comparing the Prophets of the 8th century to the speaker in this piece of text.
