What form is the underlined verb in the sentence? the president hasn't ((spoken ))about the issue since october.
a. present
b.< < ? past
c. present participle
d. past participle

Neighbors peered at us as we walked by their eyes weighed us their eyes judged us and at the peered we straightened our backs and lifted our chins in contempt we didn’t care what they thought what rhetorical technique dose the passage best exemplify a: understatement b: parallelism c: hyperbole d: satire