Answer:
Gerunds and gerund phrases always function as nouns.
They can act as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of a preposition in a sentence.
Answer:
The author has utilized rhetorical devices like parallelism to underline the hopeless and sad state of the migrants who were loathed and abhorred however had no alternative yet to crowd the town to battle hunger and endure.
Explanation:
The chapter discusses the agrarians who were destroyed by industrialization. Ventures and innovation pushed them on the streets. They moved looking for food and to give their families a dinner to endure.
Parallelism has been utilized at spots to underline the hopelessness, the downfall and pain.
For example, in one of the passages, just to weight on the straightforwardness of the agrarian people before they were brought close to fate:
<em>‘a simple agrarian folk who had not changed …….. who had not farmed. They had not grown up….’ </em>
This redundancy of expressions and clauses is parallelism. The section is packed with such models. It loans it solidarity and authenticity and offers to feelings.
Answer:
B). They were wealthy but generous, helping those less fortunate.
Explanation:
The 'Frankenstein' family is best described as the Bourgeoisie European family that has remained quite significant in European history. The famous character 'Victor Frankenstein' of the science fiction titled 'Frankenstein' is also historically rooted around this context.
As per the question, the 'Frankenstein family' was wealthy and possessed great fortune but despite belonging to the elite bourgeoisie class they were quite generous and helped those whom they found 'less fortunate' for a century. However, the family remained 'infamous' and used as 'synonymous' to 'monster' as their scientific experiment failed and went amiss(as in the novel Frankenstein). Thus, <u>option B</u> is the correct answer.
