Having read the excerpt, the answer to the question is letter b. Millay finds beauty in the autumn world but resents the rebirth of spring because she sees death and sorrow everywhere. The other choices given were not that relevant compared to what is chosen.
The linking verb, otherwise known as the copula verb, is was. Assassinated is the main verb, while was is the linking one.
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If the child is still inside of the woman, then it is referred to not as a baby but as a fetus. She is not murdering anybody but denying life to an unliving thing that wouldn't know the difference. It is better for the child to not have been born than to grow up in an unhealthy household
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Writers use [A. IRONY] to create a contrast between how things seem and how they really are.