Which lines from "mending wall" best indicate that the speaker is amused while repairing the wall?
o we wear our fingers rough with handling them.
oh, just another kind of out-door game,
o no one has seen them made or heard them made,
but at spring mending-time we find them there.
o and he likes having thought of it so well
he says again, "good fences make good neighbours."
o we have to use a spell to make them balance:
"stay where you are until our backs are turned! "

Which is easier to identify direct or indirect characterization? why

What is the effect of narrator's word choice on the tone of this passage? the words "my heart shrank within itself" create a fearful tone. the words "wounded his fellow" develop a remorseful tone. the words "struck harsh upon my ears" suggest an irritated tone. the words "better-omened" set a hopeful tone. excerpt from "the cabuliwallah" by rabindranath tagore i was sitting in my study, looking through the accounts, when some one entered, saluting respectfully, and stood before me. it was rahmun the cabuliwallah. at first i did not recognise him. he had no bag, nor the long hair, nor the same vigour that he used to have. but he smiled, and i knew him again. "when did you come, rahmun? " i asked him. "last evening," he said, "i was released from jail." the words struck harsh upon my ears. i had never before talked with one who had wounded his fellow, and my heart shrank within itself when i realised this; for i felt that the day would have been better-omened had he not turned up.

At least 10 sentences. topic: pranks have you ever pranked a friend? have you ever been pranked? do you like pranks? can pranks go too far?