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d: to link ideas across sentences and paragraphs
The novel’s protagonist. Tom is a mischievous boy with an active imagination who spends most of the novel getting himself, and often his friends, into and out of trouble. Despite his mischief, Tom has a good heart and a strong moral conscience. As the novel progresses, he begins to take more seriously the responsibilities of his role as a leader among his schoolfellows.
Unclear question, but I infer you are referring to a passage that isn't mentioned.
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e. Personification
Explanation:
Based on the context which referred to abstract objects; time and care, the author seems to be personifying 'Time'.
Note that Personification is a type of figure of speech that attributes or refers to something that is not a person as though it were.
One common example is "Have you seen my car? Isn't she beautiful?". We noticed the car is spoken as though it were a person.
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Zora, a young girl known for her imaginative imagination and proclivity for telling compelling lies, spends her time with her best friend Carrie, who tells the plot
While Joe Clark is violent, angry, and set in his own ways and beliefs.