Read these lines from Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody": I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us—don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! How does the narrator view fame?

not concrete, existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence

a.) literature that explores grotesque characters and eerie, violent occurrences in a dreary setting.

i have identified the gerund in this sentence by writing it in all capitals.

gerund phrase: writing it in all capitals

gerund use: object of preposition