Answer:
The examples of irony that saki uses to create satire are:
* Bertha is sad that she will not be tempted.
* Pigs are more important than flowers.
Explanation:
First of all, it is important to state the meaning of irony and satire, irony is to express something meaning to say another thing, or when the events happen contrary to what they are expected to be, while satire is the use of comedy to make fun of the flaws of others, this excerpt uses irony by showing that Bertha was expecting to be tempted to take some beautiful flowers while ironically there were no flowers at all, and the garden does not have flowers for the second irony which is selecting pigs over flowers in a garden, thing that not many people would do.
A gap in the fence is a magnet is a form of figurative language describing what gaps in fences are.
What he added to the play is that the one everyone knows and says "hello" to on the street. <span>When Thornton </span>Wilder<span> created </span>Our Town<span>, </span>he<span> experimented in the way </span>he<span> presented the characters and action of the </span>play<span>. Perhaps the biggest departure from a traditional </span>play is<span> the role </span>Wilder<span> created for the </span>Stage Manager<span>.</span>
Answer:
That she hath engrossed us is true, and defended the continent at our expense as well as her own is admitted, and she would have defended Turkey from the same motive, viz., the sake of trade and dominion.
We have boasted the protection of Great Britain, without considering, that her motive was interest not attachment
Explanation:
They are the only sentence mentioning Great Britain's interests.
Answer:
A "The spring of 1998 was the Halley’s Comet of desert wildflower years." (lines 1–2)
Explanation:
This is the excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's scientific essey "Called Out". It describes events in the spring of 1998 and gives insight on magnificent and complex life cycle of desert plants.
The given sentence provides description of the highway medians suggesting that there were unusually many flowers, rarely seen before.
That provides evidence to answer A. which claims that that spring was the Halley's Comet of desert wildflower years. Halley's Comet is a rare phenomenon that happens only once every 76 years, so by making this comparison, the author claims that what happened that spring was a true botanical rarity.
