what figure of speech is twain using in the following quotation from "what stumped the bluejays"?

"well, you're a long hole, and a deep hole, and a mighty singular hold altogether -- but i've started in to fill you, and i will fill you, if it takes a hundred years! "

Which quotation best expresses a major theme of this speech? "i saw my evil day at hand. the sun rose dim on us in theo morning, and at night is sunk in a dark cloud, and looked likea ball of fire.""i am much grieved, for i expected, if i did not defeat you, too hold out much longer, and give you more trouble before ! surrendered."m"we went to our great father. we were encouraged. hiso great council gave us fair words and big promises, but wegot no satisfaction.".**we told them to let us alone; but they followed on andbeset our paths, and they coiled themselves among us likethe snake."

Which is easier to identify direct or indirect characterization? why

Which of the following events of the story actual occurs first in the sequence of events