Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain: the town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. how does twain use an idiom in this excerpt? a. to lend a magical quality to the sentence through the use of imagery b. to summarize the cumulative actions detailed in the sentence c. to describe how quickly the once sleepy town comes alive d. to show that everyone in the town has an important job to do

Have you ever thought you understood a person based on a story that you have heard about them? have you ever guessed about a person's personal life because of the clothes they wore? or, have you judged a person because of their friends? although classifying people in this way is typically discouraged, authors deliberately use your preconceived ideas to you form an opinion about the character or to at least have a better understanding. can you think of a time that you made a character call about someone based on external aspects? were you correct, or incorrect? has anyone ever made an incorrect assessment of you based on external aspects? write two paragraphs about it in your journal.