Which excerpt from "wiley, his mother, and the hairy man" best clues readers that the hairy man is the antagonist of the story?

a) “the hairy man's . . gone get you if you don't look out.”
b) “you know, the hairy man can't stand some hound dogs.”
c) “hairy man was ugly, even when he grinned.”
d) “the hairy man hasn't any feet like a man.”

A) “The Hairy Man's . . . gone get you if you don't look out.”

Explanation:

"Wiley, His Mother, and the Hairy Man" tells the story of a little boy named Wiley who is very afraid of the swamp. The hairy man knows of this fear of Wiley and so he plays cruelly with this boy through the fear he has. The hairy man already got Wiley's father, now he wants to get Wiley.

One stretch that gives the clue necessary for the reader to know that the hairy man is the antagonist is "The Hairy Man's. . . gone get you if you do not look out. "This excerpt adds a dark and disturbing tone that matches the personality of the character.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".