I think it might be D), but im unsure. It just seams to fit the theme of how <span>Nick said "</span>The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come East."
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I believe both A and B are correct
Answer: C) The heartbreak of unrequited love is akin to death.
Explanation: From the given options, the one that represents the larger universal idea about life that the mourner's whispers convey in the excerpt from "Violets" is the corresponding to option C: The heartbreak of unrequited love is akin to death, because in the excerpt the narrator says that a broken heart ceased to flutter being still young, indicating that the sensation of a broken heart resembles death.
I think that if the sentence was they get paid ( as a verb) every alternate week it would be definitely a passive voice. Do not forget that the passive forms are made up of the verb be with a past participle.<span>
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