Answer: Gerund phrase: telling his mother. Noun use: object of the preposition.
Explanation: a gerund is a verb form which functions as a noun (as a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of a preposition, etc), in English they end in "-ing." In the given sentence we can see an example of a gerund phrase in the words "telling his mother" ("telling" is the gerund and "his mother" is a complement), this gerund phrase is acting as the object of the preposition "without" which is place just before it.
B. literary theft.
C. cheating.
D. Both b & c
A novel of manners is fiction work meant to re-create a social world with a very detailed observation the values, customs, and mores of a highly complex society.
A novel of sentiment is also called Novel of Sensibility and it reflects (1) an overindulgence in emotion, especially when it is the conscious effort of inducing emotion in order to enjoy it.
A novel of incident is dominated, usually, by episodic action.
Neither of those fit because Silas Marner is usually considered to be a novel of motives.
b. Is
c. Wow
d. Acrimonious
B. to provide the details and arguments that support the main idea
C. to list all of the characters in the speech
D. to grab the attention of listeners and introduce them to the main idea
I'd say the answer is B, to provide the details and arguments that support the main idea.