The following structural elements best support the interpretation that the rain is a powerful force in the narrator's life:
C. The onomatopoeia and the couplet.
The couple is what closes the poem. It emphasizes rain’s presence on the poem as the rhyme of the couplet is the word ‘rain’.
I'd choose this dialogue to revise your sentence:
<span>“Did you hear?” I asked them. “My painting got selected! Exciting, right?” I smiled. “Especially given that I felt so incompetent at the beginning and that the competition was ruthless!”
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It feels like the option that best uses the dialogue to improve this sentence, because the other options are either too informal or just the same sentence as the original one.
The last sentence- furthermore, city......
You will have to show us which sentence you're talking about
I would help you but i don't know what the question is