What is persuasion?
a. the act of convincing others
b. the act of controlling or manipulating
c. the act of defeating an opponent
d. the act of taking or receiving

A

Explanation:

It is the act of convincing others. You give them some sort of argument or some sort of impassioned plea or some sort of documented evidence and if the person is not a total brick, he or she might listen. If he or she does he has been convinced.

If he or she does not respond then that is fine. Persuasion does not mean forcing someone to believe. Or keep on nattering until that person gives up just to get rid of you.

All of the other answers resemble B where there is some sort of force involved or a resolution by not giving up.

the examples that saki used to represent satire through situational irony are options two (2) and five (5) inasmuch as the wolf thought that looking for a girl in the bushes could be as easy as hunting little pigs at the park, but it took him so much time to find the girl if it had not been not for a silly mistake. also, bertha would have survived to the wolf's hunt if she had not won those medals for goodness, which at the end they were what got her killed by making noise, so winning medals of goodness was not so good achievement, after all.

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.