Which sentence is an example of direct characterization? 2 points
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her
look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.
O As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's.
He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.
And then an ecstatic scream of joy, and then, alas! a quick feminine change to
O hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the
comforting powers of the lord of the flat.

Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.

Explanation:

The given question refers to the story The Gift of the Magi written by O. Henry.

Characterization is the process in which an author creates and describes their characters to their readers. There are two main types of characterization:

The first sentence is an example of direct characterization. Here, the author explicitly describes his character's appearance. The rest of the sentences are examples of indirect characterization because they include descriptions of actions, based on which we need to make additional conclusions about the characters. There is no explicit information about them.

This is why the first option is the correct one.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)