The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
- These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
- The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
- The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
- Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
- This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
The answer to this question is C - the common error in this sentence is a
dangling modifier. The dangling modifier included here, would be the
words 'having risen'. It Is unclear in this sentence whether this phrase
is referring to the hikers, or the river. The hikers could have been
woken up early because of the rains, until we reach the end of the
sentence that concerns a river that also could have risen due to the
rains.
Answer:
Idioms are figures of speech True
Explanation:
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