¨The stage having been appropriately set for the three-act comedy, and the first act successfully played by carrying off the villains in a madly dashing automobile—which broke every traffic regulation and barely escaped crushing everyone in its way—the second act proved even more ludicrous.¨ Read the excerpt.
This part of the excerpt is an example of -
A. A pathos appeal
B. An appeal for the author´s credibility
C. extended metaphor
D. Parallelism