It helps the reader to understand the text and also helps with remembering events that happen in the story.
This is a question based on exploring cultural identity, and based on the excerpt that is attached to this question, the type of rhetoric that is used in order to persuade the readers the accuracy of Anaya's conclusion is an appeal that is based on the characters of the author. Hope this helps.
Its the second answer
"it causes the bride to blush and makes her content"
as indicated by "she looked bashfully down; The pride o' her heart was beguiled" (beguiled means to charm aka make content)
The answer is: He is pretending to be Ernest.
In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," Algernon confronts Jack and the latter reveals that Ernest is his fictional irresponsible brother he pretends to be in order to have fun and disappear for a few days. Therefore, Algernon, who is deeply in love with Cecily, decides to show up at Jack's country state pretending to be Ernest.
