Answer:
<u>from the book: "The Lady, or the Tiger" by Frank R. Stockton</u>
Explanation:
The original paragraph in the book where we get this quote reads;
"When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, public notice was given that on an appointed day <em>the fate of the accused person would be decided in the king's arena, a structure which well deserved its name, </em>for, although its form and plan were borrowed from afar, its purpose emanated solely from the brain of this man, who, every barleycorn a king, knew no tradition to which he owed more allegiance than pleased his fancy, and who ingrafted on every adopted form of human thought and action the rich growth of his barbaric idealism."
Answer:
Witness combines the genre of the thriller, western and melodrama, and brings together the two very different worlds of the rural Amish and the city police.
It prevented the Allies from knowing what the Soviets were up to
The correct answer is plaintive ballad and mourning.
Elegiac broadside itself is a type of ballad which has a plaintive feel and which is mournful.
It is a poetry which tells the story of a life which is being lost. An elegiac broadside is being got from mournful feeling of a poetry.
If a story is being taught like a ballad, it is being recited for a person who has died.
The broadside is the paper which contains the announcements, the public information and the elegies.
A famous example of an elegiac broadside is the elegy.
My best guess would be a gerund phrase because the -ing verb is at the beginning of the sentence, thus making it a noun