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Which type of characterization is used in the excerpt to reveal claire’s character traits? indirect, direct, both or neither

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile

Which sentence you is an example of chronological structure in “the city without us”?