Read the following sentence from the speech. And our only miserable comfort was that we believed that Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets; that the leaders of western countries did not know what was going on behind those black gates and barbed wire.

How does the phrase "miserable comfort" affect the tone of the sentence?

Read this passage from an analysis essay: allegories do three things. first, they tell a story. allegories also have multiple meanings. finally, allegories offer a moral lesson. which best uses parallelism to revise this passage? a. telling a story, having multiple meanings, and moral lessons: these are the things allegories do. b. allegories, tell a story, multiple meanings, and a moral lesson. c. allegories tell a story, have multiple meanings, and offer a moral lesson. d. allegories tell a story, and have multiple meanings and offer a moral lesson.2b2t