An excerpt is a short snippet from a movie, book, or story. Infer means to deduct based on reasoning and clues. This question is asking "What can you assume based on the information in this snippet?" Without that snippet, I am unable to answer the question.
Answer:
The irony that lies behind Fortunato's name is that the basic root word of his name is "Fortun" as in fortune, indicating luck, success or prosperity when Fortunato is the actual victim in the story of "The Cask of Amontillado."
Compound sentence since it can be two separate sentences
The theme in a story is its underlying message, or 'big idea.' In other words, what critical belief about life is the author trying to say without actually coming right out and saying it in the writing of a novel, play, short story or poem?
Answer:
The story The Railway Children relates to life because it relates to real life situations. “You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know HOW happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed.” In real life people experience this event a lot. When it seems like are happy and enjoying there life as it is, sometimes things can change, and you take a whole new turn towards a different life.
Explanation:
I submitted this and got an 85% but you are going to have to paraphrase it :3
I hope this helps (I chose the Prompt 2 choice)