Which excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture" conveys the playful tone of the passage? The attention of the company was immediately turned to me; if my face had been pale the moment before, it now glowed almost to burning.
I tried to laugh, but could only make a grimace; and found all the muscles of my face twitching at sixes and sevens.
There is a picture in the room in which I was put last night, that has had an effect upon me the most singular and incomprehensible.
“A picture!” said the old gentleman with the haunted head. “A picture!” cried the narrator with the waggish nose. “A picture! a picture!” echoed several voices.

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 5, scene 5. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. which prediction about the plot does this passage most support? brutus will replace caesar. brutus will take his own life. brutus will surrender to his enemies. brutus will be forever haunted by caesar.

Read these passages from when birds get flu and cows go mad by john

The gift of the magi analyze the various characters in the story. list which character types—dynamic, round, static, and flat—you observed in the story. cite evidence to support your response.