What is indirect characterization? question 3 options: when a character indirectly says something to another character to begin the conflict of the narrative. when the conflict of the text is not clearly resolved but is indirectly brought to closure through a cliff-hanger. actions or things said by a character that give the reader information to make inferences about a character. the explicit description an author gives about the character in the exposition.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination