B. The quotations are for the song so the question mark goes on the outside.
Answer:
The narrator's description of the mother contrasted sharply with the revelation of the mother's secret, revealing her to be someone she presented herself not to be which surprises and shocks the reader, as the mother was practically described as being a saint.
Explanation:
In A Dead Woman's Secret the narrator described the mother as a rigid disciplinarian who instilled unshakable morals in her children, which resulted in the son becoming a magistrate without pity for the weak and the daughter becoming a nun.
This description creates an image of the mother as a virtuous woman in the reader's mind, as also assumed by her son and daughter.
So the surprise is real when the mother is revealed to be a woman who had an affair with a man that was not her husband, the behavior is not in keeping with who she was described to be.
The underlined phrases that are participial phrases are,
Tired from practice, the quarterback returned to the locker room.
The volleyball team won the match, moving on to the state tournament
Participial Phrases are verbal phrases that function as adjectives. They are formed by a verb with an -ed ending, Past Participle, or -ing, Present Participle, ending. They modify a noun or a pronoun.
To make sure it is a Participial Phrase try to take it away from the sentence. If what remains is a complete thought then it is a Participial Phrase modifying a noun or a pronoun.
