Answer: C) “I’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now I’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels.”
Explanation:
When using satire for humour, one uses ironies, reversals, exaggeration and ridicule in such a way that the situation is funny in its unexpectedness.
In this excerpt, the woman could not do such a simple American thing as riding a public bus but she is now so in tune with American culture that she watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels.
This reversal in situation shows satire as when she first came to the US, she would not have expected to be doing such things as watching tractor pulls in the future.
Answer:
B.
Explanation:
This illustrates a strict adherence to social rules. "(...)that was the way in which you wasted your time and money".
Option A doesen't have anything to do with manners.
Option C is formed by "being a gentleman". Depending the social context and it's rules, you could easily be a "gentleman" and be baptised. This is not the case.
Option D: In this excerpt there isn't a value of education over religion.
In both of walt whitman's and Sara teasdale's poem, there is a contrast that both of these poems describe the horrible outcome of the war in which it destroyed the condition of our natural world. The poem conveyed that the world that we live in was really beautiful and the war brought nothing but ugliness to it
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Answer:[Queen Cassiopeia] had boasted that she was more beautiful than the ... No one in his senses would have made such a proposal. Medusa ... It seemed that Perseus had been led by his angry pride into making an empty boast. No man unaided could kill Medusa. Which characteristics of a Greek hero does the excerpt show?
Explanation: MORE POWER
