Answer: A. Tigers play a crucial role in the Indian ecosystem, and their extinction would have devastating and wide-ranging consequences in that country.
Explanation: The purpose of the thesis statement is to summarize the main point of the essay. It states that tigers are important to the Indian ecosystem, and the thesis can be built off of why tigers play such an important role. The other options are incomplete or not strong enough to reiterate an essay.
1. D) the tour guide's dialect made him a bit difficult to understand
2. B)
Irony is the difference between what is being said and what is being meant.
English writer Anne Bradstreet used several instances of irony in her poems, mostly to mock society's assumptions as regards the role of women. For example:
"Who says my hand a needle better fits"
In the example above, Bradstreet refers to how society constrains women to do housework chores.
It was the worst holiday of my life! I went to a summer camp with my two best friends, but I had a ghastly time. First, I couldn't share my friends' room at the camp. I slept in the same room with the youngest girls. They screamed in the middle of the night and woke me up all the time because they missed their parents.
In the end, I decided to play the role of their big sister. I told them the most fantastic bedtime stories and they fell asleep quickly. And guess what! We won the acting competition on the last day because we acted out one of the most original stories I invented!
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