As Odysseus was leaving the island of the Cyclops behind, he mocked and talked down on Polyphemus and accused him of being impious. Polyphemus exclaimed that he was the son of Poseidon, yet Odysseus did not believe him.
If the underlined word is 'between', then the answer is B, as it's <span>indicating a
relationship involving two people (Brennen and Javier). </span>
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.
The underlined participial phrase which is "continuing to stir the soup", is placed incorrectly. The correct sentence should be, "The phone rang and my mother, continuing to stir the soup, answered it". Why is it misplaced? Putting the participial phrase at the beginning of the sentence makes it a dangling modifier because it does not clearly state the specific word it modifies. In the corrected sentence, it is clear now who is being described with the phrase "continuing to stir the soup", which is the "mother".
