What is the part of speech of the underlined word in the sentence?

the rumbling thunder had startled my younger sister.

a.
noun

b.
adjective

c.
conjunction

d.
verb
had startled is underlined

In tim o’brien’s chapter good form what does the narrator say is the happening truth

Read and key the following paragraph. 1"the final phase of franklin's public service is themost spectacular. 2after his return to america he waselected to the second continental congress and served withjefferson and john adams on the committee which drafted thedeclaration of independence. 3then, in 1776, he wasappointed one of the three commissioners to seek military andnaval assistance from france. 4for nearly ten years pariswas his center of operations, and, in large part because ofhis personal popularity, he secured the much-needed supportof france and spain and eventually negotiate thetreaty of paris (1783), by which england recognized americanindependence. 5when he returned to america in 1785 he wasold and ill, yet he found strength to serve as a delegate tothe constitutional convention, and to continue his work withmany humanitarian and scientific societies." type the key words for sentence's 2. 3. 4. 5.

Antony refers to brutus and his co conspirators as honorable.what effect does the continued repetition of this word have on the tone of the words around it?