Read the following excerpt from a blography on Mark Twain and answer the question. 1Samuel Langhorn Clemens, Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30,1835. The
experience of his life prepared him as a writer, an American writer. He worked as a printer, then apprenticed
himself as a river pllot on the Mississippl, and eventually became one of the best. He worked at mining activities in Nevada. Sin 1862, he took a position on the Virginia City Enterprise where he first used the name
Mark Twain, which was a riverboat pllot expression.
6He went to the West Coast and worked for a while on the San Francisco newspaper, Morning Call. After
leaving there, he went to Calaveras County to try his hand at mining. In 1865, he was asked by Artemus
Ward to write a humorous sketch. He signed It "Mark Twain," and his reputation began on the eastern
seaboard. 10in 1866, he was sent by the Sacramento Union to Hawall. "Unexpectedly. In 1867, he salled
abroad and wrote letters that were to become the book, The Innocents Abroad. 12 With that book he became
the most famous humorist of his time. 131n July, 1869, The Innocents Abroad was published. 14On February
2,1870, he married Olivia Langdon.
What is the denotation of "sketch" In sentence 8?
An outline

A drawing

A piece of writing

A place to draw

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.

Brainliest asap!me : ) has anyone read the poem, no, love is not dead? ? i have a question about it .. : )

Which is a run-on sentence? a) all of the fish that we caught were too small to keep. b) ricky changed the oil, he forgot to replace the oil filter. c) the striking patriotic design surprised the memorial planning committee. d) everyone on the harbor cruise reported feeling a little seasick and left early.