Which is one way to "show" imagery rather than to "tell" it?

Which of these events inspired many of stephen crane’s writings, including the story “an episode of war”?

According to the study, what made jonathan swift distrust the assumption most english people of his era made about the superiority of their own race and culture?

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.