Read this excerpt from Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769–1776 by Charles Carleton Coffin.Paul Revere sees the muzzle of the pistol within a foot of his breast, but it does not frighten him."Ah, gentlemen, you have missed your aim.""What aim?""You won’t get what you came for. I left Boston an hour before your troops were ready to cross Charles River. Messengers left before me, and the alarm will soon be fifty miles away. Had I not known it, I would have risked a shot from you before allowing myself to be captured."Which statement best describes the characterization techniques used in this excerpt?