Aword derived from a verb and used as an adjective is called a(n) as seen below. gnarled and twisted, the old oak seemed like it would last forever. modifier adverb participle

Participle.

Explanation:

They are words form out of verbs but used as adjectives, there are two types of participles; past and present. They present participles always end with the -ing form while the past participle ends in -ed or -en.

In the sentence used as an example "Gnarled and twisted..." are the participles.

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d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

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