The correct answer is letter b.
The excerpt is written in the Simple Past and narrates a series of events that happened in a sequence.
Notice the verbs in the Simple Past : wept, wailed, fell, faded and died.
There is a verb missing in the part " the earth stiff and cold" The verb is grow, the Simple Past form is grew, therefore " the earth grew stiff and cold" is the correct way.
Letter A is wrong because there's a verb missing.
Letter C and letter D " the earth was growing stiff and cold" the verb grow is in the Past Continuos, " the leaves were falling from the sorrowing trees" the verb fall is also in the Past Continous breaking the pattern stablished.
<span>A 2-3 minute speech with three rhetorical devices</span>
Boxer from animal farm lead to his own depression because he continued to work hard for Snowball and show loyalty to the oppressor. Boxer would always work hard into the night with little to no reward. He always stated <span>"If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right," Because of this, other animals followed his lead because they have always admired his work ethic. </span>
I think A because, if there's no emotion, that means they don't feel anything, which means they are emotionally numb!
"Dawn in New York" praises the solitude of a morning routine.
While this morning routine does take place on urban transportation systems, the poem is praising the fact that these transportations systems are nearly empty at dawn. There are "no pushing crowd, no tramping, tramping feet" getting in the speaker's way as he makes his way to work.
The beauty of New York at dawn is the fact that the speaker can enjoy its beauty alone.
