Read the following excerpt from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. How does Twain use an idiom in this excerpt? A. To lend a magical quality to the sentence through the use of imagery B. To summarize the cumulative actions detailed in the sentence C. To describe how quickly the once sleepy town comes alive D. To show that everyone in the town has an important job to do