What is the purpose of stage directions? A. to provide the audience with background information about a play B. to tell the audience what takes place between characters backstage C. to indicate actors' onstage movements, positions, and tone D. to show how the various characters differ from each other

C. to indicate actors' onstage movements, positions, and tone

Explanation:

The stage directions are instructions from the author of the play of how the actors should act in certain parts of the work. For this reason, the author places indications that must be followed about the movements, positions and the type of emotion that the actors must transmit when interpreting that character at a certain moment in the play, thus allowing the story to be established as the author imagined.

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explanation:

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.