It seems that you have already filled the correct pronoun in the blank provided. Yes, the correct answer to complete this sentence is the pronoun "this". The pronoun "this" is an example of a demonstrative pronoun. Other demonstrative pronouns also include these, those, and that. Hope this answer helps.
Answer: A. It shows the father has a tendency to exaggerate.
Explanation: When people exaggerate or imagine things, we tend to close our eyes. The last sentence, "(Here he'd stop and close his eyes)" shows us this.
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Burning is a chemical process that involves a substance being broken down and changed into different substances so It is.
For the other question you can determine it by it’s reaction to the heat.
<span> An assonance is the repetition of the sound of a vowel, or of a dipthong, so i believe the answer is the first one. Hope this helped! (:</span>