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>
If you mean “is the statement correct?” kinda thing, then i believe you can’t speak french. you may be able to speak a little bit of french, but i don’t think you’ll be able to speak french fluently.
B.
The word “incredulity” is defined as
“the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something.” Which is not the case in the sentence
Example of the word incredulity: "he stared down the street in incredulity"
Answer:
D. what elements are used, and do they help the author’s purpose?
Explanation:
This is the only one out of the four options that would lead you to conduct an in-depth analysis.