I Believe it is C, Noun clause
A third person narrator knows all the characters' feelings and thoughts, an author might choose this perspective to let the reader know everything the characters are feeling and what's going on. This gives a broader perspective on the story and can influence the readers opnion.
Before answering the question, it is convenient to mention that James Baldwin was a Black writer in the decade of the 50s and even though there were other Negro Writers in the literary world, they all suffered from racisms and social prosecution, the novel “Notes of a native Son” is close to an autobiography assembled from essays James Baldwin had written. In the novel the author intends to depict the hatred black people had to suffer at that time.
The figurative device that Baldwin uses to emphasize the rage buried beneath his father's outward appearance and actions is:
The paradox “vindictively polite.”
Here the word "vindictive" is expressing the inner rage that was beneath his father outward appearance, and the word "polite" expresses the overt emotions or actions.
It conveys the subject of the paragraph.
That way, the subject can be further elaborated and backed up with supporting statements/evidence in the following sentences of the paragraph :)
Answer:
<u>positive -- neutral -- negative</u>
fragrance -- smell -- odor
request -- ask -- demand
slim -- average -- skinny
discuss -- debate -- argue
observe -- watch -- spy
unique -- uncommon -- strange
detect -- find -- snoop
