Read the excerpt from “Raymond's Run.” [My father] can beat me to Amsterdam Avenue with me having a two-fire-hydrant head start and him running with his hands in his pockets and whistling.

Squeaky’s description of her father shows readers that she

knows she will never be as fast as her father.
admires her father’s natural running ability.
wishes her father was a more serious runner.
likes that her father can beat her in a race.

what book are we talking about here

edwards uses the phrase "o who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! " in order to illustrate that this type of suffering is unimaginable. the word "express" denoted that the state of a suffering soul is required to be described by any person, but it would not happen because no one can imagine how this suffering is felt.  

-show what might happen if the reader disobeys edwards is not correct because this is described trhough the text, not by the phrase used.

-describe what endless suffering looks and feels like is not correct because this description might be the porpuse of the excerpt provided, not the porpuse of using the phrase during the writting.

-prove that few people have survived limitless suffering is not correct because it is implied that the soul of a person is already suffering and doesn't have any way to escape.

time order.

these signal words are commonly used in directions such as cookbooks where steps are listed in order.

-mabel < 3