Ead this passage from dragonwings by laurence yep. the demon was a big, cheerful-looking demon with a bland, round face. he eyed father. "i dunno, john." many demons called tang men john because, they insisted, they never could get the hang of our real names. "you know anything about horselesses? " "some," father said. truth to tell, he had never handled a horseless carriage in his life, though he had a book on them and cut out articles whenever they appeared in the demon magazines and newspapers. that was the extent of father's knowledge. but to know facts is nothing. he had an intuitive feeling for what made the horseless carriages tick. he looked around inside the engine for about ten minutes and then wiped his face absentmindedly, so that the grease stained his cheek. he did not even notice. which quote from the passage is an example of direct characterization? “the demon was a big, cheerful-looking

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened.joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations.b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v.represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty.c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Read the excerpt from black boy wright uses this personal experience to establish

Read the excerpt how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale. which idea does the author introduce first