Answer:
Participial Phrase
1. <u>known for their architectural splendor</u>
2. <u>mashed potato casserole</u>
3. <u>Inspired by Mrs. Henderson's speech</u>
4. <u>Traveling all across Asia</u>
5. <u>showed his completed assignments</u>
The word it modifies:
1. Cites
2. Dan
3. Mark
4. Grandpa
5. Thomas
Explanation:
The above phrases are the Participial phrases and followed by the word they modify in each number.
Participial phrase is known as the phrase that modifies the subject of a sentence and can as well modify other nouns. The phrase looks like a verb but actually functions like an adjective - modifying noun in the sentence. Participial phrases help to explain/describe who/what the subject or the noun is or is doing.
We will discover that the words that the words the above participial phrases are modifying are nouns. The phrases above give us more information about the nouns.
Answer:
White Spaces in poems are simply spaces within a line of poetry, usually inserted as a guide to the reader on how to pace the reading of the poem.
It can also be used to modify the meaning of a poem or to elicit a "pause" and "reflection" from the reader.
White space is to a poet what the "pause for effect" is to the orator.
Explanation:
Don Paterson’s for instance in one of his works played a witty one with "white space".
He gives the poem a very long title (a 15-word caption which is uncommon with poems) then leaves the next page blank. Of course, this effect was very impactful and creative as if he intended to go instantly from a wordy sanguine to an introverted phlegmatic.
Annie Caldwell in an article "The White Space in Poetry" demonstrated the effect of white spaces by taking her old poem and rearranged it using white spaces without changing any of the words. The effect is that the poem took on a different meaning.
Mark Strand, for instance, writes, in “Keeping Things Whole"
The first two lines are quick to strike at the title. Then there is a space before the as if asking the reader to pause and think.
Cheers!
It is explicit because it is directly stated in the paragraph.
The answer is A. personification. giving human like qualities to non living objects