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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Riley Hutchinson

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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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Trevon · Answer 1

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.

Maxim · Answer 2

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.