Answer: C) “I’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now I’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels.”
Explanation:
When using satire for humour, one uses ironies, reversals, exaggeration and ridicule in such a way that the situation is funny in its unexpectedness.
In this excerpt, the woman could not do such a simple American thing as riding a public bus but she is now so in tune with American culture that she watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels.
This reversal in situation shows satire as when she first came to the US, she would not have expected to be doing such things as watching tractor pulls in the future.
The answer that is true about connotative meanings is A) they describe the feelings or associations that words create.
B) is denotation, not connotation.
C) is incorrect because you can have multiple connotative meanings.
D) is also incorrect because a word may evoke positive feelings in one person, and negative in another.
Answer: sonnet
Explanation:
“Ozymandias” is a sonnet, in this case a variant of a Petrarchan sonnet. The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into an 8-lined octave that creates a situation and a 6 line sestet that comments on the situation.
A) one-half
You need the hyphen in between the one and half
Dumbfounded means to be left utterly speechless, or to simply be amazed/confused.
