Answer:
D. desire to surprise his friend and his friend’s failure to recognize him
Explanation:
Answer D
Correct. In these sentences, the author presents a humorous reversal that emerges from the ironic incongruity between the traveler’s plan to “overpower” his old friend with an excess of pleasure and the anticlimactic outcome of the surprise visit. As it turns out, the friend experiences no immediate pleasure from the visit because he fails to recognize the traveler and can only be made to remember him after the traveler gives a “gradual (in this context, methodical) explanation” of who he is.
When Thomas Jefferson referred to the Missouri Compromise he described it as “ fire bell in the night”. This is because he saw it as a pressing matter and he saw this as an emergency since a fire bell at night indicates that there is an emergency.
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Lines that intersect at a single point.
The other incorrect choices:
-Parallel lines have no solution because they don’t intersect.
-Identical lines have infinite solutions because they touch at all times.
-the y intercept would have an x value of 0, however it’s 2.
