Plz help thanks! In the paragraph below, what word is repeatedly used as a participle?
How do you know it’s a participle?

Michael Jordan is a gifted basketball player. Leonardo DiCaprio is a gifted actor. Selena was a gifted singer. Albert Einstein was a gifted scientist. Maya Angelou is a gifted poet. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a gifted speaker and leader. Can people with such disparate talents all be called gifted? They can if you believe there are myriad of ways for people to be smart, just as there are many different types of people.

the man is cut in half.

explanation:

cassius, casca, and their allies plant false documents to manipulate brutus to join their cause to remove caesar. after doing so, they visit brutus at night in his home to persuade him of their views. there they plan caesar's death. brutus is troubled but refuses to confide in his devoted wife, portia. on 15 march, caesar's wife, calpurnia, urges him not to go to the senate. she has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of the overnight storms.

the turtle carries new life, oat seeds, over to the other side of the highway and plants them there.

b. failure at least that one seems the most negative out of all of the answers provided pls correct me if i'm wrong. : ))