Answer:
Swift uses a false premise to create humor.
Explanation:
Ridiculous situations abound in Gulliver's travels and this is one of them. It is quite absurd that a man born blind could be versed in the art of painting. Having blind apprentices too supports this because they can't know what they are doing let alone teach someone else.
Of course the professor must be generally mistaken and the fraternity that elevates him must be one ridiculous lot.
1. Were tested
2. Stayed in the same
3. Switched to a different
The correct answer should be
Jove's heavenly daughter stood confess'd to sight;
Like a fair virgin in her beauty's bloom,
Skill'd in the illustrious labours of the loom
Using like to compare something is a simile, which is why this should be one.
Answer: When you figure out why a reading passage was written, you are identifying the author's purpose. Author's write for one of four reasons – to describe, to entertain, to explain or inform, and to persuade.
Explanation:
The answer is:
KATE How many times have I told you not to leave your things around the house?
A dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in a play, book or film. In the line from "Brighton Beach Memoirs," by Neil Simon, Kate has a conversation with Eugene in which she complains about leaving his things around the house:
Kate:
How many times have I told you not to leave your things around the house?
Eugene:
A hundred and nine.
