Read the passage below and answer the question. For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit bellef. Mad indeed would ! be to expect it, In a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not-and very surely do I not dream.

Why is the passage an example of verbal irony?

•The narrator does not expect to be believed

•The narrator really is mad

•The narrator does not write his story

•The narrator is truthful

In this excerpt from phillip freneau's poem “american liberty,” the speaker describes being “slaves and minions to a parliament.” what is the intended meaning of this hyperbole? and should we now when spread thro' ev'ry shore, submit to that our fathers shunn'd before? should we, just heaven, our blood and labour spent, be slaves and minions to a parliament? perish the thought, nor may one wretch remain, who dares not fight and in our cause be slain; a. the speaker feels that the colonists should pay their share of taxes. b. the speaker believes that the british government is broken and should be fixed. c. the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the british government. d. the speaker intends to lead a slave revolt against the british government.

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?

In at least two hundred words, discuss why "désirée's baby" is or is not relevant today.