I believe these parts provide direct characterization: "<span>Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose, as with iron clamps, he followed out his original design, probably without so much as imagining an objection to it."
The writer clearly and directly describes the character's personal features, as well as his internal motivation for an action. It is opposed to indirect characterization, where we can grasp the character's traits or motivation through his/her actions or speech.</span>
Answer:
The "stories" are found in ways that spiders are usually found.
Explanation:
Here's some examples of the "stories" (spiders) being found and gotten rid of:
"An Indian girl opened the closet door and a story fell into her hair."
"We poisoned the stories and gathered their remains with broom and pan."
Stories in our cereal boxes.
Stories in our firewood.
Stories in the pockets of our coats.
We captured stories and offered them to the ants
The sentence that does not contain misplaced or dangling modifiers is <span> B.
Sitting in a chair, I looked at the clouds on the porch.</span>
