As a spotlight beamed down upon them, the man raised his arm high in the air, a popping sound was heard, and in a flash, Jennie, the 10,000-pound elephant, suddenly disappeared.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The story talks about the man whose name is Houdini. The whole story revolves around him and his activities that he does.
In the first paragraph only, we get to know that Houdini is very strong and has got great physical strength in him. He is so strong that is shown that with his single hand only, he picks up an elephant who weights about 10,000 pounds and makes the elephant disappears. The only one who is left on the stage is, he himself. Showing that he is very strong.
A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by coordinator the coordinators as as followed: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so,
A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as Because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as That, who, or which.
The most important thing to remember about colons is that you only use them after statements that are complete sentences.
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That’s what i came up with?
I have found this question online, and it is about the short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," by Mark Twain. The excerpt is long for me to post here, but it begins with the story told by Simon Wheeler, one of the characters.
Answer:
The option that best states how the author develops the character in this excerpt is:
A. with the use of dialect.
Explanation:
When it comes to literature, dialect is related to how the author portrays the characters' speech. Many authors choose to write words with an uncommon spelling just to show that that is the way the character pronounces them. For instance, in books by Zora Neale Hurston, what should be "I" was spelled as "Ah" to emphasize pronunciation.
<u>The same happens in this short story by Mark Twain. The excerpt we are analyzing here uses dialect to reveal more about the character. For example, Wheeler says "feller" instead of "fellow". Twain wants readers to know that Wheeler is a simple man, in contrast with the narrator of the story who is an educated man and who uses a very different (formal) dialect from Wheeler.</u>
