Which of the following types of humor describes the situation in which an event or action seems ridiculously out of place within a story?

A - Hyperbole

B - incongruity

C - irony

D - sarcasm

When I first met my dad's ten-year-old little sister, I wasn't sure whether to address her as Aunt Karin or just Karin because she is my age. What is the meaning of the homograph address as it is used in the sentence? A. the location of something B.

1. Many burglaries have ocurred in our area recently. 2. It seems that the perpetrators pose as workers for a lawn service. 3. They travel from house to house asking if homeowners would like to have their lawns mowed. 4.

In her soliloquy, Juliet admits that. a. she believes in ghost b. death is better then losing Romeo c. she is afraid d. Hiding with her cousins body would be unbearable

How many paragraphs are found in the average essay? A 3 B 5 C7 D9

How do we know that the narrator from Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, is told in the third-person omniscient a. The narrator only shares what he or she can see from the character s actions. B.

Which statement best explains the role context plays in better understanding this excerpt

A poem written in blank verse-- has neither rhyme nor meter. rhymes every other line. has lines that vary widely in length. contains meter but not rhyme.

Mark Twain uses the last words of Benjamin Franklin, "None but the brave deserve the fair" in order to A. support his claim that Napoleon's last words were fitting. B. prove that preparation does little good. c.

A pull in the opposite direction

How do you decide what information you need to solve a problem?