What is the function of a participle?

question 2 options:

a)
act as a noun

b)
act as a preposition

c)
act as an adjective

d)
act as an adverb

Respond to the following prompts in your initial post: 1. explain if this essay is narrative or descriptive and provide reasoning to support your response. 2. describe what you believe the purpose of the essay is an support your answer with information from this week’s material. 3. now that you have identified the purpose of the essay l, explain why you believe the author did or did not achieve her intended purpose.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

Read the excerpt from martin luther king jr.’s “i have a dream” speech. the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. and so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. the emotional connotation of the underlined word king express his a. indecision. b. hopefulness. c. spirituality. d. outrage.