Which phrase connects these characters to the Southern gothic genre? half an arm
she had never seen
his left coat sleeve
folded up

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

harry says he would trade a gold mine for a glass of water.

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.