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This is the original sentence: <span>In a feeding frenzy, the pigeons descended upon the breadcrumbs that the kindly old man on the park bench continued to toss.
The correct answer is the prepositional phrase "on the park bench" acts as an adjectival phrase.
A is incorrect because a prepositional phrase cannot be a gerund phrase too. B is incorrect because a prepositional phrase cannot be a verb phrase as well. D is incorrect because 'to toss' is not a prepositional phrase, but rather an infinitive.
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1. It is the afternoon (off the banks of noon)
2. She notices the bird eating and drinking
3. Rapid eyes, velvet head, frightened beads
4. The bird did not notice the person at first
Sorry this is all I can figure out
Had to look for the missing details and here is my answer.
Here is the excerpt:
<span>In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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This is actually taken from the poem "Annabel Lee" which was written by Edgar Allan Poe.
So in this excerpt, the sound device he used here is ALLITERATION. His purpose here is to connect the image of the sea with death.
Hope this answer helps.