He thought furiously. let the bell ring at 9: 35 and the boy strut out of miss carpenter's room undetected, with his loot, and he would send up a howl like a wolf cub over his first kill. who says these big-shot law jurks ain't monkeys? the biggest! he's a lot of nothing'. wind. see me stand him on his ear? and this is just for openers. wait till i get going' for real, not any of this kid stuff. .

how does the author add tension in this excerpt?

a. with the protagonist’s conflict
b. with an unexplained idea
c. with a sense of urgency
d. with fast pacing

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

what are the choices and the passage take a picture