Acter and Plot Development in Fiction: Mastery Test
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Which sentence in this excerpt from Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is an example of direct
characterization?
I found Simon Wheeler doring comfortably by the barroom stove of the old, dilapidated taver in the ancient mining camp of Angel's, and I
noticed that he was fat and bald headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused
up and gave me good day I told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his
boyhood named Leonidas W. Smiley - Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley - a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident
of Angel's Camp. I added that if Me Wheeler, could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to
him
Simon Wheeler backed me into a comer and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat me down and reeled off the monotonous narrative
which follows this paragraph
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