Well I don’t know what you mean by this but if your talking about words then it would be known as a contraction or abbreviation example would be package --> pkg theorem --> thm and a contraction would be known as dont ( do not)
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<span>Which earlier ideas did Romanticism reject?
</span><span>B. the beliefs of the Enlightenment
Because the </span>Romanticism thought the ideas were <span>dangerous</span>
The tense of the verb had been writing as
used in the sentence above is in: D. <span><span>past
perfect progressive. This type of tense denotes that there is continuity
of the action that was already completed at a point in the past. This form contains
the modal “had” with an aid of “been” and a present participle of the verb
which ends with –ing.</span></span>
The answer is A, because the protagonist is the main character, and that's what Rider is. The other answers don't really make sense in terms of the role he plays in the story.
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