Which phrase in this excerpt from ambrose bierce's "an occurrence at owl creek bridge" highlights the use of everyday characters in realism? 1. no service was too humble for him to perform 2. no adventure too perilous for him to undertake 3. a part of the frankly villainous dictum 4.a gray-clad soldier rode up to the gate

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

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argument: "it's time to wage a war against britain to secure american freedom."

claims: "america has tried every peaceful method available for seperating from england" & "the americans' petitions to the king have been turned away by him."