The answer to your question is most adequately described with letter D. The theme is the mysteries of God, as this was his "preoccupation." This is implemented in his epic tradition in Europe.
Participles are words formed from verbs that can be used as adjectives. In this sentence, "roaring" would be B, participle.
I arrived in THE USA
Flew over THE alps
Quick stopover at London
We left for New York
THE time on board wasn’t boring
Films to watch on THE monitor
THE people on THE plane were all Italians
We saw THE Statue of Liberty, Eillis island and THE Empire State Building
THE hotel I stayed at was on the corner of 42nd street and 5th avenue.
I don’t like THE hotels here very much but I didn’t have time to rent an apartment
Hello!
I don't find the paragraph to be too wordy at all. I don't understand the entire context of the paragraph, only because I don't know the topic that it is written on. Despite this, I was still able to follow the meaning of the paragraph.
Something that I did notice is that you have one run-on sentence in your paragraph. You wrote "The only thing they solved was why Hope was in that picture, she photobombed a family picture, they gave her the printed version because they deleted the original and didn't want her in it, she cut the family out and wrote on the back, 'Don't go to the subway.'"
Instead, you could reword it into multiple different sentences to make the idea complete. I would recommend you turn this section into: "The only thing they solved was why Hope was in that picture. She photobombed a family picture and they gave her the printed version because they deleted the original one and didn't want her in it. She cut the family out and wrote on the back, 'Don't go to the subway.'"
I hope this helps you! Have a lovely day!
- Mal
<span>"His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter,' and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.""Rip Van Winkle," 1994 edition, 1-2
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