Read the excerpt from "Dream Season.” "Mr. Robinson is a brave man, Marcus,” Dad said. "There are a lot of people out there who don’t want him to play just because of the color of his skin.”

That is a d*mb reason, I thought as I filled out the scorebook.

What kind of characterization is contained in the underlined sentence?

a)direct, because it tells the reader a personality trait of the character
b)direct, because it tells the reader a physical trait of the character
c)indirect, because it shows something the character says
d)indirect, because it shows something the character thinks

Select the correct answer which sentence from nathaniel hawthorne's short story "dr. heidegger's experiments success that dr heklegger's character represents wisdom and a. b. 6. "my poor sylvia's roser ejaculated dr heidegger, holding it in the light of the sunset clouds. " appears to be facing again "i love it as well thus, as in its dewy freshness otserved ne, pressing the withered rose to his withered lipe "yes, friends, ye are old again." said dr heidegger, "and for the water of youth is alt lavished on the ground "if the fountain gushed at my very doorstep, i would not stoop to bathe my tips in it, no, though its deficium were for years instead of moments d. reset next

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?