Read the following excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and answer the question. “It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will.”

Which of the following is the best inference about the characterization Poe is creating?

The author is giving an indirect characterization of the character speaking as having ill will toward Fortunato.

The author is giving an indirect characterization of Fortunato as distrustful person.

The author is giving a direct characterization of the character speaking as an honest person.

The author is giving a direct characterization of Fortunato as a gullible person.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Which statement best describes thomas paines usesof evidence in the passage the crisis no. 1?

“simile” by n. scott momaday what did we say to each other that now we are as the deer who walk in single file with heads high with ears forward with eyes watchful with hooves always placed on firm ground in whose limbs there is latent flight source: momaday, n. scott. “simile.” the language of literature. new york: mcdougal littell, 2006. 265. print. which of the following techniques does this poem use? i. simile ii. sensory imagery iii. allusion i and ii i and iii ii and iii i only