1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Alex17521 [72]
3 years ago
10

Please read the following excerpt from an essay, and answer the question that follows.

English
2 answers:
Hunter-Best [27]3 years ago
4 0
C. Simplicity is the way to go and I chuckled so thanks
Dmitry_Shevchenko [17]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

B. Assertion.

Explanation:

In the given passage, the speaker remembers how he was greatly impressed by the quips he read in a book. The quip he found funny and effective was by Robert Benchley, who jokes about the two types of people in the world.

Looking at the quip, we the readers are also quite expectant of something that shows a demarcation of these two groups of people. But all this is removed when Benchley states "<em>those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't</em>". This is comic, and makes the speaker as well as us, laugh at it though the result was quite unexpected.

So, in using the last line "<em>Humor is based on the unexpected</em>" as a thesis statement and a topic sentence, the speaker asserts that things like that are what humors people more than the real, common jokes. The assertion that the unexpected is what makes it funny makes the whole thesis statement an effective one for the paper.

You might be interested in
The number of units in a book indicates how many basic ideas must be mastered in the book.
Nataliya [291]
This answer is true. Not much else to say here.
4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Essay on SIng a song of tuna fish
KonstantinChe [14]
Thanks for the free points hehehe
5 0
2 years ago
Of the following ideas, the one that is most general is
swat32
C. performers

Comedians, actors, and musicians all fall under the umbrella of being a performer in some way, making this the most general category here!
3 0
3 years ago
What would be a good idea for a teenage couple and hollaween outfits that match or go together?
Kryger [21]
My gf and i went as mermaid man and barnicle boy last year
3 0
3 years ago
Wha strategy does the author of the essay reading shakespeare suggest will help you understand difficult lines in shakespeares p
aev [14]
By 'author of the essay reading Shakespeare' do you mean us readers?
As, I'm currently doing right try and read classical novels like 'How to kill a mockingbird'. There's no need to rush if it's the first time reading, the more you read (or few of classicals) you will kind off get what the author is making the character speaking. Also understanding the aspect of the story. :)
4 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • If can help me with this English question on McBeth
    9·1 answer
  • What is the plural of cameo? Use a dictionary if necessary.
    7·2 answers
  • What kind of writing is found in a scientific essay/
    6·1 answer
  • Two young finches stole birdseed. How many adjectives are in the sentence? A. one B. four C. Three D. two
    13·2 answers
  • How do you find an appositive or an appositive phrase?
    9·1 answer
  • Read the following excerpt from a speech and answer the question that follows. What kind of person do you want to be? Do you wan
    7·1 answer
  • Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
    9·1 answer
  • What can you see inside a book?​
    11·2 answers
  • Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”
    13·2 answers
  • What three types of dialects do many people speak?
    14·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!