It is necessary to give credit to the words and ideas from the original author because if you do not you are plagiarising also if you plagiarize while writing a book without quotations or referring to the author it is illegal.
I would say the 2nd to last paragraph the on that starts with "He"
The author is using B. INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION.
Indirect Characterization refers to what the character says or does. In the above passage, the author wrote what the character does. We, as the readers, only infer what the character is all about because we cannot read his mind or "get inside his head".
Direct Characterization refers to what the narrator directly says or thinks about the character. The reader is told what the character is like.
Tardy is to party as clue is to igloo
An Encyclopedia because it is a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
