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Goryan [66]
2 years ago
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Read this excerpt from "A 400-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer and Her Work by Bharati Mukherjee and answer the

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sweet-ann [11.9K]2 years ago
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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.

vovangra [49]2 years ago
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Answer:

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