Basically to charge something at a price that people wouldn't pay in their right mind. (Excessive charge).
The award for excellence in architectural design will go to the architect _whom_ the committee selects
Antecedent _architect_.
From the dictionary:
Antecedent: a word or phrase that a pronoun refers back to:
In the sentence "He picked a book off the shelf and handed it to Sally", "book" is the antecedent of "it
The protagonists is Scout but following close behind her is her father. Scout is a curious girl and questions all that her dad says. This gives us, the readers, a chance to really immerse ourselves into the story as we follow it alongside Scout. We further connect with her as we are "on the same boat" as her, in the sense that we only discover things as she does in the book, when she does. There is no dramatic irony ( not that i remember)