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Question 1:
Humorous passage 1: "It (the umbrella) was made to be carried on the arm like an enormous ornamental bat and to allow one the opportunity to put on British airs as the atmospheric conditions demanded."
Humorous passage 2: "(The umbrella is) An item to be carried in the street, to be used to startle friends and—in the worst of cases—to fend off one’s creditors."
Question 2:
Passage 1 is funny because it compares the umbrella to an ornamental bat, which sounds weird in the first place. Plus, the umbrellas is said to be used by people who want to seem British, which is even more outrageously funny.
Passage 2 is funny because it treats the umbrella as a scary object which can be used even to fend off people you owe money to, which is absurd.
In both passages, the author uses tone and voice in a very witty way: he speaks seriously about absurdity, about unimaginable stuff. It is like an encyclopedia of weird and fun facts. That is what makes it funny: the contrast between a serious tone and larger than life images.
Answer:
<em>The author expands his argument of reading and its importance in the lives of children</em>.
Explanation:
"I Am Very Real" was written by Kurt Vonnegut. He was an American native. He had a writing career of about fifty years. He died on 11th April 2007. This letter was published in 1967. In it, he describes how rights come with responsibility and it is not necessary for a person to fulfill each and every right of another individual.
He also wrote this letter to make the receiver aware that writers are real people, not just fake names. He talks about children and how to prepare them for practical life through books.
Answer:
c) it allows you to explore points of view that differ from your own
Explanation:
Answer:
Over.
Explanation:
Prepositions are the words that tell us the position of the nouns. In other words, they tell us the relation of the nouns and pronouns with the other words in the sentence.
In the given sentence, "eagle" is the noun, "majestic" is the adjective, the verb is "soaring" and the preposition is "over". It tells us the position of the eagle, the movement of the eagle.
Thus, the correct answer is "over".
