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Select the correct answer.Read this excerpt from "A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce. Which type of point of view does the narrative portray?An officer of the Federal force, who in a spirit of adventure or in quest of knowledge had left the hidden bivouac in the valley, and with aimless feet had made his wayto the lower edge of a small open space near the foot of the cliff, was considering what he had to gain by pushing his exploration further. At a distance of aquarter-mile before him, but apparently at a stone's throw, rose from its fringe of pines the gigantic face of rock, towering to so great a height above him that it madehim giddy to look up to where its edge cut a sharp, rugged line against the sky. It presented a clean, vertical profile against a background of blue sky to a point half theway down, and of distant hills, hardly less blue, thence to the tops of the trees at its base. Lifting his eyes to the dizzy altitude of its summit the officer saw anastonishing sight-a man on horseback riding down into the valley through the air!Afirst personB.third-person objectiveC.second personD.third-person omniscient