Please answer for Oedipus Rex All of the following quotes from the text are examples dramatic or situational irony, except...

Select one:
a. “Let me clasp you with these hands, a brother’s hands, a father’s; hands that made dull sockets of these once bright eyes; hand of a man who blindly, recklessly, became your sire by her from whom he sprang.”
b. “Your cradle was your marriage bed; one chamber sufficed for son and sire.”
c. “Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist & cloud.”
d. “And yet this very greatness proved your curse.”

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is different from honey. it offers a stronger sweet flavor, and like steel or plastic, it had to be invented. in the age of sugar, europeans bought a product made thousands of miles away that was less expensive than the honey from down the road. that was possible only because sugar set people in motion all across the world—millions of them as slaves, in chains; a few in search of their fortunes. a perfect taste made possible by the most brutal labor: that is the dark story of sugar. how does the comparison of sugar to honey reveal the authors’ purpose? it persuades readers that sugar tastes better than honey. it informs readers that there is a connection between slavery and sugar. it informs readers that honey had a major impact on society. it persuades readers that sugar is as important an invention as steel.

Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.