In this excerpt from "Song of Myself", the literary device that Whitman uses to address the sea is (C.) apostrophe.
Apostrophe is a literary device that consists in speaking directly to an inanimate object or to someone that cannot answer.<u> In this excerpt from Whitman's poem, the speaker is talking to the sea as if it was real human being capable of understanding the way he feels</u> ("Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you"). The use of apostrophe allows the poet to produce a more creative perspective and to develop a dramatic effect.
Told can indeed be a participle or a verb, depending on the context.
Here it's verb: it's a past tense of "tell".
It could be a participle if the sentence were as follows:
I puffed by cheeks to get rid of the hiccups, told by my cousin to do so. (it's a weird formulation but not incorrect I believe)
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The answer is <span>A summary is a shortened version of an original text; a paraphrase is a restatement of a part of text, such as a sentence.
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C Subordinate is not a type of verbal phrase
Darwin's argument tells us that species develop their traits through natural selection due to competition, survival and reproduction. Diversification of species is an important part to make his argument valid because diversification suggest extinction of specie if it doesn't survive.
