A story, poem or picture that can reveal a hidden meaning or message typically a moral or something too do with politics.
Answer:
"The man called Evans came swaying along the canoe until he could look over his companion's shoulder."
"The paper had the appearance of a rough map. By much folding it was creased and worn to the pitch of separation, and the second man held the discoloured fragments together where they had parted."
Explanation:
Hello. From the context of your question we can see that it relates to "The Treasure in the Forest" a tale written by HG Wells that presents the story of two men who sail in search of treasure after murdering a Chinese man and stealing the map he owned.
The story follows a plot full of adventures, mysteries and reflections and like every plot presents an element called exposition. The exposition can be found at the beginning of the story where important elements for the development of the entire plot are presented to the reader. In the case of the question above, the two response options selected above are two examples of exposition, where one of the characters and the map are presented, which is a central element in the entire narrative.
Find below each word with its definition:
1. a verb form ending in -ing used as an adjective: participle
2. a verb form used as another part of speech: verbal
3. a verb form ending in -ing used as a noun: gerund
4. group of words without a subject or verb used as single part of speech: phrase
5. verb form preceded by to, used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb: infinitive
6. phrase beginning with a preposition: prepositional phrase
7. prepositional phrase modifying a noun or pronoun: adjective phrase
8. participle with complements and modifiers: participial phrase
9. verb ending in -ing used with a helping verb: verb phrase
10. prepositional phrase modifying a verb, adjective, or adverb: adverb phrase
11. A conjunction that joins words or groups of words of equal rank: coordinating conjunction
12. An adjective clause that is essential to the meaning of the sentence: restrictive clause
13. A verbal form ending in -ing with its object and modifiers used as a noun: gerund phrase
Answer:
The answer is A.
Explanation:
This is the only option that uses a colon the right way.
In his travels Author William Least Heat-Moon stumbled upon the little store in a county names Nameless in Tenessee, eh tehn wrote about this journey he took with his family and when he describes this place he starts off by describing their store, and then Ginny and Thurmond Watts telling him the story of how the name of the county came to be.
