Select the correct answer. Which best states how the author develops the character in this excerpt?
A. with the use of dialect
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with a physical description
C. with an action sequence
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with the use of inner monologue
adapted from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County
by Mark Twain
There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley
in the winter of '49-or maybe it was the spring of '50-1
don't recollect exactly, somehow, though that makes me
think it was one or the other is because I remember the big
flume wasn't finished when he first came to camp; but
anyway, he was the curiosest man about, always betting on
anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get
anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldn't, he'd
change sides.
Anyway that suited the other man would suit
him-anyway just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But
still he was lucky, uncommon lucky, he most always come
out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance;
there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned, but that
feller'd offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I
was just telling you. If there was a horserace, you'd find
him flush, or you'd find him busted at end of it; If there was
dogfight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat fight, he'd beton
it; If there was a chicken fight, he'd bet on it: why, if there
was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which
one would fly first; or if there was a camp meeting, he
would be there regʻlar, to bet on Parson Walker, which he
woed in he the host evharter about here and en he was
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In which part of this excerpt from the gettysburg address does president abraham lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens? four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battle-field of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.