In this excerpt the narrator is complaining about the way achievement test are and how up to that they measure someone’s knowledge. He uses the word bland to describe the right answer of this kind of tests which it means „lacking a strong or particular flavor; not interesting”, in this context can be used describing it as non-sense or not obvious answers. He also complains about how bad he is in this because he cannot find the logic in the answers. With this explained, we can infer that the right answer is D Tan believes that achievement tests give inflated measurements of language ability, because he kind of argues that the answers are not "valid" to measure it.
In the 'Pandora's box', Haphaestus asks the goddesses to give Pandora a gift or a power. In other words he told them to give Pandora some of their powers.
Answer:
E. Situational irony
Explanation:
The literary device is <em>situational</em><em> </em><em>irony</em>
Answer:
The writer describes events in chronological order
Explanation:
It can be noticed that the writer describes events in chronological order because he/she is telling a story. Generally, In narrative writing, the narrator should follow a chronological order for the reader to understand the story. Obviously, not all stories are told chronological. In this particular case, the years mentioned (1808, 1810, 1812 and 1815) helps the reader to follow the story, as well as have a context.
