I'd say that the technique of satire used by Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest is b. ridiculously exaggerating the importance people such as Gwendolen place on a name.
She knows that she wants to marry a man named Ernest, because that is a good and decent name - when she finds out that Ernest's name is actually Jack, which is a common and mundane name, she sort of changes her opinion about him based on such an irrelevant fact.
Answer:
Persuasion
Explanation:
President Obama stated that our infrastructure used to be the best and gave examples of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the Interstate Highway System but now our own engineers gave the nation's infrastructre a 'D'.
He also stated that other countries have better internet, roads, faster trains, and newer airport and that the US has to do better.
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