What is the best definition of satire? writing that employs irony to amuse or entertain readers writing that uses ridicule to draw attention to an issue or make a point writing that says the opposite of what is meant in order to express anger or contempt writing that juxtaposes expectations with outcomes that surprise or disappoint

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

What inference about haida families can be brawn from the actions foc the sky chief