This is the original sentence: <span>In a feeding frenzy, the pigeons descended upon the breadcrumbs that the kindly old man on the park bench continued to toss.
The correct answer is the prepositional phrase "on the park bench" acts as an adjectival phrase.
A is incorrect because a prepositional phrase cannot be a gerund phrase too. B is incorrect because a prepositional phrase cannot be a verb phrase as well. D is incorrect because 'to toss' is not a prepositional phrase, but rather an infinitive.
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<span>C) Conflicted young lovers, mistaken identities, happy endings</span>
The simile “lay down / to sleep like a snow-covered road / winding through pines” refers to death. To be more exact, to death of the author's father. The message that author wanted to convey is to show how people can pass through their loss and to represent all the loneliness of death, comparing it to the loneliness of the winter road, empty and deserted.