Which statement about colons is correct? select one: a colon is used to replace the end punctuation in a sentence. a colon is used to introduce a new idea. a colon is used to connect two unrelated sentences. a colon is used to introduce a list of items.

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the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,