Select the correct answer.
which of these excerpts from poems by emily dickinson uses irony?
a.
my cocoon tightens, colors tease,
i'm feeling for the air;
a dim capacity for wings
degrades the dress i wear.
b.
could she have guessed that it would be;
could but a crier of the glee
have climbed the distant hill;
had not the bliss so slow a pace, —
who knows but this surrendered face
were undefeated still?
c.
one dignity delays for all,
one mitred afternoon.
none can avoid this purple,
none evade this crown.
d.
there's a certain slant of light,
on winter afternoons,
that oppresses, like the weight
of cathedral tunes.

heavenly hurt it gives us;
we can find no scar,
but internal difference
where the meanings are.

e.
exultation is the going
of an inland soul to sea, —
past the houses, past the headlands,
into deep eternity!

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.