Answer:
C. It criticizes British attitudes toward poverty in Ireland, but in an indirect way.
Explanation:
Satire is the use of using "humor" directed at or during a serious event. Criticizing the British and their thinking of poverty in an indirect way is using satire to make fun of the British all the while they themselves are in poverty and are poor.
The correct answer is:
B. Predicate.
The predicate is necessary to complete the sentence.

Made or consisting of wood. 2. Stiff and unnatural; without spirit: a wooden performance; a wooden smile. 3. Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.