Read these lines: "It is that star, explained Miss Leeson, pointing with a tiny finger. Not the big one that twinkles, the steady blue one near it. I can see it every night through my skylight. I named it Billy Jackson." Miss Longnecker replies: "The star you refer to is Gamma, of the constellation Cassiopeia. It is nearly of the second magnitude." The contrast between the two names shows the first speaker

1. She picks the star out by sight, describing it as the steady blue one rather than the big one that twinkles. 2. She then gives it a name of her own choosing, and the reason she offers is that she sees it every night from her own room. 3. The reply supplies the official name and even the magnitude, which is knowledge rather than ownership. 4. Setting a private name against a catalogue name shows her turning a fact into a possession, option A. 5. Option B fails because her description separates the two stars exactly. _Source: O. Henry, The Four Million (1906), public domain_