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In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Bottom wakes up from a very deep dream and does not realize that what happened to him was true. Actually, he believes that having the head of a donkey and a beautiful fair falling in love with him is an extremely intense fantasy, so he feels like he has returned to normal. As a result, he wants Peter Quince to include a ballad about his dream during the play: "I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream."
The correct answer for this question is this one: "C.) "The other houses on the street...gazed at one another..." Participial phrase is a phrase that contains the <span>verb and acts as an adjective, modifying a noun or a pronoun.</span>
Here are the choices:
A.) "We waited to see whether she would remain or go in..."
<span>B.) "Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance" </span>
<span>C.) "The other houses on the street...gazed at one another..." </span>
D.) "I listened to the fall of the coins."
Whitman uses visual, auditory, and tactile imagery in the poem's first stanza. When he says "The ship has weather'd every rack", he conveys the feeling of exhaustion. (The ship is, of course, an allegory of America, whereas the Captain stands for President Lincoln, who was just assassinated.) "The bells I hear" is an auditory expression, which supports the people's exaltation, but also resembles the sound of death bells which mourn the Captain's death. The vessel is "grim and daring", grim because the trip had been extremely hard, but the cause was daring. "The bleeding drops of red" is a striking image of the tragedy of Lincoln's death. The blood was shed, so it was not a natural death. The Captain is "cold", which is an example of tactile imagery.
As a whole, this stanza juxtaposes two kinds of mood: the exaltation about the Captain's glorious deeds, as well as pathos and tragedy because of his death. The imagery makes the poem all the more exciting, as it lets us see, hear, and feel the speaker's state of mind - which is a fusion of personal and collective feeling toward America's journey to freedom and Lincoln's pivotal role in it.
B. he
The word 'he' is being modified by the participial phrase.
The word 'laughing' is the participle.
A PARTICIPLE is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed. They express an action or a state of being. However, since they function as adjectives, participles modify nouns or pronouns.
A PARTICIPIAL PHRASE <span> is a group of words consisting of a participle and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the participle.
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