Which word does the participle modify?
startling rumors spread throughout the town after the power outage.

a.
spread

b.
rumors

c.
town

d.
outage

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"

Which type of appeal does president lincoln use in these lines to try to persuade southerners

Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." and indeed there will be time to wonder, “do i dare? ” and, “do i dare? ” time to turn back and descend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair— [they will say: “how his hair is growing thin! ”] my morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, my necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin— [they will say: “but how his arms and legs are thin! ”] do i dare disturb the universe? in a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. which lines indicate that the speaker is concerned about what others think of him?