Answer: A. The omniscient narrator's overview of all the characters provide a foreshadowing of the ending.
Apparently, the overviews provided for the characters of the story already gave a hint or an indication of as to how the story shall end. That is why foreshadowing is very evident here.
Answer: In the given excerpt from Herman Melville’s "The Lightning-Rod Man" we can see a comparison of a salesman with the devil, this similarity is demonstrated in three occasions on the text:
"The scowl grew blacker on his face; the indigo-circles enlarged round his eyes as the storm-rings round the midnight moon. He sprang upon me; his tri-forked thing at my heart", here, the author describes some kind of scary creature with a "tri-forked thing" just like the devil.
"I seized it; I snapped it; I dashed it; I trod it; and dragging the dark lightning-king out of my door, flung his elbowed, copper scepter after him" in this phrase the author calls the salesman "the dark lightning-king"
"But spite of my treatment, and spite of my dissuasive talk of him to my neighbors, the Lightning-rod man still dwells in the land; still travels in storm-time, and drives a brave trade with the fears of man" here the author refers to the salesman as "the Lightning-rod man" also comparing him with the devil.
CC's, or Cubic Centimeters, is the displacement in one revolution of the pistons
HP, or Horse Power, is the work the engine has to do.
As a reference, <span>1 </span>hp<span> = 746 Watts of power.
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