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20 July, 14:51

Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest. Jack. My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression. This excerpt best illustrates which feature of a comedy of manners? witty wordplay a commentary on marriage a comparison of country and city life concern with appearance over morality

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  1. 20 July, 15:02
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    The correct answer is a witty wordplay.

    It is a comedy of the forms and manners which develops absurd situations and characters whose deep scarcity take them to respond in inappropriate ways to the different situations.

    Like a good satire Oscar Wilde shows us, in this comedy, his humor. Infact describing the member of the aristocratic Victorian society he makes fun of its aristocratic class.
  2. 20 July, 15:16
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    The correct answer is A) : Witty wordplay.

    This because he is using a metaphor to prove that someone shouldn't talk in a way just to look or sound like something we're not.
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