Read this passage:
devante stared at the dust-covered streets and
remembered a time when those same streets were
bustling with activity and the nearby skyscrapers were
packed with people working and living. now everything
was empty. since the war, everything was different but the
one thing that bothered him the most was the all-
consuming quiet
what element of plot is this passage an example of?
a. climax
b. resolution
c. exposition
d. falling action

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Make sure the topic of your persuasive essay is not a.something someone else is writing about b.a fact c.something you have written about before

Identify the participle or infinitive phrase in the sentence below