EUGENE (To the audience) Can you believe that? She'd better have a bad heart or I'm going to kill her one day . . . (He gets up to walk into the house, then stops on the porch steps and turns to the audience again . . . confidentially) Listen, I hope you don't repeat this to anybody . . . —Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon What do the stage directions help the reader understand? Eugene wants to share a secret with the audience. Eugene wants the audience to sympathize with him. Eugene is trying to get applause from the audience. Eugene wants the audience to dislike another character.

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

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

Based on how the stage directions are used in this excerpt from act 1 scene 1 of richard iii what was likely the main purpose of providing stage directions in drama