How does the tale of the three rioters the pardoner make sales?

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

Lens quotation: "character is what you are in the dark." -dwight lyman moody

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir