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Expository is a text in which the author explains a topic. Passage 1 does exactly this by explaining weather.</span>
Lawyers always need to summarize their argument and to find loopholes to present a strong case
Sherlock Holmes is a detective, while Watson is a doctor. This shows that Sherlock is more of an artist, willing to go beyond the facts of science. Watson tries his hardest to get the art, but his more practical mind just doesn't allow it. Hope I helped!
If direct characterization, as opposed to indirect characterization, straightforwardly describes or tells for the reader the personality and the traits of a character ("the woman was tall and shy; the man was small and was nervous"), then the sentence in the excerpt that contains it is this one: "Both were pretty, active, country girls who had no ambition to go on the stage." Other sentences in the excerpt are providing information about them (they were friends, they were young, they lived in a boarding house, they lived in a boarding house, and they were working), but they do not directly reveal their traits.