Question

Select the absolute phrase in the following sentence:

Piping hot and spicy, the aroma of the food filled the room.

filled the room
food
Piping hot and spicy
the aroma

Answer 1

I'll give you the definition so you may understand more clearly as to what an absolute phrase is.
It's basically a noun and participle combined together along with maybe a modifier ( modifiers are optional).
So an example would be:
Legs folded.
legs = noun
folded = participle
with that in mind the best option would be?