Based on your response in part D, revise and adjust the analysis you wrote in part C. ANSWER:

The language of “Midas’s Zinc Touch” is straightforward and helps the author achieve his purpose to inform readers about the true origins of the myth of Midas and his golden touch. The author chooses phrases such as “not true,” “none of that probably ever happened,” “we need to be more specific,” and “nothing more than an accidental ‘touch’ of zinc” to compare historical information to the myth. This use of straightforward diction helps the author show how the myth has historical origins but grew and embellished over time. In this way, the diction helps the author achieve his purpose to inform readers about his topic.

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened.joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations.b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v.represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty.c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Read this excerpt from edgar allen poe the masque of the red death and answer the question that follows.what kind of writing does the excerpt represent? here the case was very diffierent,as might have been expected from the dukes love

Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?