As Melanie waited for her mother’s car to (finally) round the bend of the school parking lot, the minutes (dripped) on, like remnant raindrops falling from a roof after a hard rain. The (shadows lengthened), and she sighed. What do the underlined words convey?

A.
Melanie’s mother is caught in a rainstorm.
B.
Time is moving very slowly for Melanie.
C.
Melanie is afraid of driving in the dark.
D.
The school parking lot is very large.

answer: this is easy, i found "it"

i will repeat the question again, "find it."

here, i located it.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .