Question

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Read this excerpt from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens:
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pagac miict show. To
begin my life with the beginning of my life. I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday at tuove n'clock at
night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had
taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first that I was
destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits, both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they
believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
In which stage of plot development is the excerpt most likely to occur?
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Answer 1

Exposition

Step-by-step explanation: In "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens, the stage of the plot development in which this excerpt is most likely to occur is in the exposition. This is part of Chapter 1 "I Am Born". The narrator, now a grown man, tells the story of his childhood since the day of his birth. In the exposition, the author introduces the characters and establishes the setting.