The author creates dramatic irony to create humor in this excerpt, as shown in option D.
We can arrive at this answer because:
- Dramatic irony lets readers know the information the characters don't.
- This can be seen in the text shown above, as the reader already knows about the ink on the rug and who spilled it even before the other characters know.
This creates humor in the scene, as readers can enjoy the characters' naivete and confusion.
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Answer: His childhood provided many topics which London could give first hand accounts on. He could write accurately about growing up without 'T.L.C. ', growing up in poverty and loneliness in childhood.
Answer: reads
Explanation:
For this sentence, the best correction would be one that continue the present indefinite tone of the word "usually". When a person is said to "usually do something," it means that they will continue to do said things or do it often.
It is therefore best that the verb following it will be in a present indefinite tense. The present indefinite tense for "read" is "reads". Sentence therefore becomes:
"She usually <u>reads</u> the newspaper".
Assimilation refers to the pattern by which <span>minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category.
For example, if you live in America, and you suddenly decided that you wanted to move to Japan, in Japan you would be a minority, given that 97% of people living in Japan are Japanese. However, over time, after living in Japan for years, you would become assimilated to their culture, and accept it as your own.
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