"'i reckon they're after somebody,' he reflected; 'likely it's me.' he returned to his pocket the handkerchief with which he had been whipping away the red dust of poker flat from his neat boots, and quietly discharged his mind of any further conjecture." "the outcasts of poker flat" by bret hart, 1869 the dialect used in this passage is an example of a. local color. b. figurative slang. c. symbolic grammar. d. western dialogue.

Which of the following is an example of an author’s purpose for using first-person point of view?

What words or phrases you to recognize the historical context of the line 7

The war of the worlds by h. g. wells but, looking, i presently saw something stirring within the then something resembling a little gray snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air toward me – and then another the war of the worlds (radio broadcast) by orson welles good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. now it's another one, and another. they look like tentacles to me. which sentence best describes the tone of the passage from the book compared to the passage from the radio broadcast? a. the book has a more matter-of-fact tone, b. the book has an angrier tone. c. the book has a scarier tone. d. the book has a more surprised tone.