The tuatha dé dannan had recently descended upon ireland’s emerald shores. their name means “tribe of the gods,” and gods they were. the tuatha dé dannan came to the coast of connemara in clouds of mist. some say they sailed into the harbor like men and burned their boats, creating smoke that spread out across the land. others swear that they came down from the heavens on dark clouds like a fine rain. these supernatural beings brought with them three days and three nights of complete darkness, a harbinger of changes to come. no one knows the true story of how the tuatha dé dannan arrived in ireland. but everyone knows how they fought their way across the land until it was theirs. what type of referring pronoun is they from the fourth sentence in the paragraph above? a. reference pronounb. subject pronounc. possessiv pronound. object pronoun

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.