Simile, since it's using "like".
<span>In the poem "Verses upon the Burning of the House," the poet asks god to <span>promise the certainty of her salvation.
</span>She says these lines:
</span>And to my God my heart did cry
To straighten me in my Distress
And not to leave me succourless.
What are the words and the synonyms?
I will answer your question, but you may want to do a search on the English Grammar Revolution to help you with future questions in this subject. Anyways, the verbal in this sentence is "hoping to begin". This means it is a participle, but despite the seeming obviousness of the answer from there I don't want to go with either A or B. However, I do believe if either one is a choice I would go with B rather than A.
