Answer any ONE of the following questions: In your own words, in complete sentences and two short
paragraphs, write in detail about characters, types of characters
and how characters are presented by writers in stories
OR
In
your own words, in complete sentences and two-three short
paragraphs, write what is point of view and explain the four
kinds of point of view.

Which option best characterizes the pardon-seller?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

What characteristics show passage 3 to be poetry?