Which description is an example of direct characterization? a. steve was the strongest wrestler on the team, yet he was several inches shorter than his opponents. b. dana gazed lazily out the window as her chemistry teacher handed out the semester exam. c. the puppy shivered uncontrollably as he entered the veterinarian's office. d. the young surgeon took a deep breath and steadied her hand before she made her very first surgical incision.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Consider tim o’brien’s story "ambush." what differences do you see between how o’brien dealt with killing an enemy soldier in the moment of battle compared to looking back on the moment later in life? what might this contrast reveal about the effects of war?

Which two lines in this excerpt from elizabeth bishops the fish suggests that the speaker respects the fish