Answer:
- A. It is the Spring Fragrance's fifth wedding anniversary, and Mr. Spring Fragrance is eager to celebrate with his wife.
- B. Mr. Spring Fragrance discusses the meaning of the verse he overhears with a young man who lives next door.
Explanation:
In this short story titled <em>Mrs. Spring Fragrance </em>by<em> Edith Eaton</em>, we learn about Laura who has befriended the titular character. Laura is to be betrothed to a man she does not want and Mrs. Fragrance comforts her with poetry.
Mr Fragrance overhears their conversation and ponders on it while touching a gift he bought for his wife to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.
He then discusses the lines he heard with a young man who lived next door to him and unhappy with the explanation.
C. The emergency lights atop teh firetrucks were flashing
The correct answer is paradox.
Paradox is a figure of speech that combines two completely opposite things into one. In the excerpt above, we can see that the speaker is willing to wait for his/her loved one his/her entire life, however, only if they don't take too long to get to him/her. This is a paradox because they weren't willing to wait for them long in the first place, as it turns out.
The conflicts contrast the theme is my first answer
