Read the passage from the grapes of wrath. his fingers found a twig, and used it to draw his thoughts on the ground. he swept the leaves from a square and smoothed the dust. and he drew angles and made little circles. which type of characterization is the author using? a. direct characterization b. indirect characterization c. abstract characterization d. personal characterization

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class