Read this excerpt from The Outsiders. What is the theme of this excerpt?
I'm different that way. I mean, my second-oldest
brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen,
never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother,
Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to
be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I'm not
like them. And nobody in our gang digs movies and
books the way I do. For a while there, I thought I was
the only person in the world that did.
O Being part of a team is meaningful.
O Growing up means accepting oneself.
O Nature teaches powerful life lessons.
O Family traditions are important.

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lane. i attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. i have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. algernon. good heavens! is marriage so demoralising as that? this excerpt best illustrates which feature of a comedy of manners?

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.

Which phrase best describes the role of irony in a written book? a. to validate readers’ beliefs b. to defy readers’ expectations c. to represent an idea d. to dramatize events apex