In the mornings, I take a shower, getting dressed, and go to school.
If you swim, you should work on building speed, breath, and stamina.
In order to truly learn, a student must listen, question, and practice.
Understanding literature requires patience, creativity, and interest.
Direct characterization is when the author specifically tells the reader the traits of a character. In this excerpt, Dickens tells you that the woman is elderly, wise, experienced and knows what is "good for children". If Dickens had used indirect characterization, he would have need to shown her wisdom and experience by including specific examples. The reader would then be lead to develop his own conclusion about the whether or not the woman was wise and experienced.
Which revision of this sentence changes the tone to a more humorous one?
Do not take the food of your co-workers! Take this food if you’re fine with being a bad person! If it does not belong to you, you cannot eat it. Please be kind to each other and do not steal food.
Answer: B) Take this food if you’re fine with being a bad person!
Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. From the given options, the revision that change the tone of the sentence to a more humorous one, is the corresponding to option B, because it isn't a direct command.