"will the dog bite me? " asked proserpina, fearing the three-headed dog. "what an ugly creature he is! " "o, never fear," answered her companion. "he never harms people, unless they try to enter my dominions without being sent for, or to get away when i wish to keep them here. down, cerberus! now, my pretty proserpina, we will drive on." why might a reader of this story find verbal irony in king pluto's statement? (5 points) king pluto is describing only the people that cerberus will harm, rather than the people he won't harm. king pluto says not to fear cerberus, but proserpina may want to act in ways that provoke him. proserpina fears being bitten by the dog when she should be worried about being stuck in the palace. cerberus cannot be a vicious dog, even though he is a huge breed with three heads.

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.