In which sentence is the bracketed group of words a prepositional phrase acting as an adverb? . my sister’s grades gave her a place [in the top rank of her class].. my sister applied [on tuesday] to a graduate school in england.. my sister is going [to write novels].. my sister hopes to be one [of the finest novelists in the world]..

The prepositions are the words which show the relationship between the pronoun and the nouns. On the other hand, the prepositional phrase starts with the prepositions and end with the object of a preposition, having one or more modifiers to describe.

Adverb phrase refers to the group of words which qualifies adjectives, verbs or adverbs.  

While answering the question of where? when? or how? prepositional phrase is identified as an adverb.

Therefore, the sentence in which group of words is a prepositional phrase acting as an adverb is My sister applied [on Tuesday] to a graduate school in England.

As the above bracketed sentence answer the question of when did she apply? - 'on Tuesday', hence it qualifies to be a prepositional phrase acting as an adverb and modified 'applied.'

the correct answer is d. a discussion of specific uses of alliteration

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when you are critiquing or evaluating a poem, you will mostly pay attention to the theme, as well as figures of speech and rhythm. alliteration is a figure of speech where consonants are repeated in neighboring words - and it is important for analysis of sound and rhythm, which is why it might appear in the evaluation of that poem.

"it's more of an essay than story, but perhaps it is best described as a mood-piece: it uses a lot of musical imagery, not to mention sea imagery, religious imagery, and any other imagery that suits his purpose."