Valentina wants to make a text-to-self connection to the setting in a text. Which question should she ask herself? Is it like anywhere I've been before?

Does it remind me of people I've met?

What words appeal to my senses?

What do the story events remind me of?

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

that you cannot mess with fate and love cannot be controlled

gerund phrase: giving more than a person needs.

noun use: predicate noun.