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Which excerpt is an example of indirect characterization?

A.
Jett was a kind boy who was always willing to help anyone in need.
B.
Mariana was a chatterbox and could talk for hours about any subject.
C.
Juana pretended to be sick so that she would not have to go to school.
D.
Lamar was jealous of his older brother Omar, who was a skilled soccer player.

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I believe it would be C.
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c. all the other sentences have direct characterization in them. c doesn’t seem to have that. you would have to infer those traits.
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