Choose the sentence that might be found in a personal narrative that correctly uses both a gerund and an infinitive.

a. acting became my door to a world of adventure and excitement.
b. although i had participated in school plays since i was in first grade, my parents did not appreciate my acting.
c. if only they had realized that to act was the focus of my dreaming.
d. i knew i had to show them how i felt by saving all my money to attend drama camp.

Each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, diego’s love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. how does the underlined figurative language contribute to the meaning of the poem? it describes the reason for frida’s pain and suffering. it indicates that the love frida once felt has died. it shows that frida continues to think of politics. it suggests that frida prefers to be around nature.