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Answer:
B. In the absence of surprise, a witty remark loses much of its humorous effect.
Explanation:
Answer B
Correct. In the first sentence of the third paragraph, the author makes the claim that “merriment” (amusement) can be produced only by “a sudden impression,” that is, a surprise. In the second sentence of the paragraph, the author advances that claim by using the clause “which is expected” to assert that jests (witty remarks) lacking such an element of surprise (because the audience is expecting them) lose much of their humor and are thus effectively “already destroyed.”
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The three allusions Ralph Waldo Emerson makes are Francis Bacon, Irish dayworkers, Coeur-de Lions.
In the beginning of the "Society and Solitude" he talks about the capital and mentions how it is the want of animals spirits and in this excerpt appears all these three.
"The capital imperfection of cool, dry natures is the need of creature spirits. They appear a power inconceivable, as though God should raise the dead. The hermit observes what others perform by their guide, with a sort of dread. It is as much out of his probability as the ability of Coeur-de-Lion, or an Irishman's day's-take a shot at the railroad. As Bacon said of habits, "To get them, it just needs not to detest them,"
