Select the correct answer. Which best states how the author develops the character in this excerpt?
A. with the use of dialect
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with a physical description
C. with an action sequence
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with the use of inner monologue
adapted from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County
by Mark Twain
There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley
in the winter of '49-or maybe it was the spring of '50-1
don't recollect exactly, somehow, though that makes me
think it was one or the other is because I remember the big
flume wasn't finished when he first came to camp; but
anyway, he was the curiosest man about, always betting on
anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get
anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldn't, he'd
change sides.
Anyway that suited the other man would suit
him-anyway just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But
still he was lucky, uncommon lucky, he most always come
out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance;
there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned, but that
feller'd offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I
was just telling you. If there was a horserace, you'd find
him flush, or you'd find him busted at end of it; If there was
dogfight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat fight, he'd beton
it; If there was a chicken fight, he'd bet on it: why, if there
was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which
one would fly first; or if there was a camp meeting, he
would be there regʻlar, to bet on Parson Walker, which he
woed in he the host evharter about here and en he was
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arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

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can you be more do you have options/ if so, you can put it in the chat or edit your question (

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noun: a temporary state of mind or feeling.

adjective: (especially of music) inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind.

examples:

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because it crosses through the circle twice