<span>Washington Irving's stories can best be categorized as Romantic fiction. He is famous for his supernatural occurrences in the stories such as Rip Wan Winkle or the Legend of the Sleepy Hollow, which have inspired numerous other authors such as Hawthorne and Melville.</span>
If you did means it would be past tense. If you do it means you’re doing it in the moment. AKA present tense
The sentences which describe a satirical tone
are:
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A) </span>The
characters in the story are in a ridiculous situation. Reading about their
mishaps makes the reader want to behave in exactly the opposite manner.</span>
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The sentences mock the story with its type of
situation and the impact it will have to the readers.</span>