Read this excerpt from the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde and complete the sentences that follow. jack: gwendolen, will you marry me? (goes on his knees.) gwendolen: of course i will, darling. how long you have been about it! i am afraid you have had very little experience in how to propose. jack: my own one, i have never loved any one in the world but you. gwendolen: yes, but men often propose for practice. i know my brother gerald does. all my girl-friends tell me so. what wonderfully blue eyes you have, ernest! they are quite, quite, blue. i hope you will always look at me just like that, especially when there are other people present. gwendolen portrays victorian qualities of being . gwendolen's lines imply that her brother is blank 1: a. serious b. sophisticated c. enthusiastic d. superficial e. excited blank 2: a. poetic b. flirtatious c. snobby d. unattractive e. old-fashioned

1.D. superficial

2.B.Flirtatious

Explanation:

1- Gwendolen is concerned with appearances since she would like Jack to look at her lovingly whenever they are in front of people. Jack has just told her he loves her, but she gets interested in his blue eyes and the fact that he looks at her in public.

2-Her brother proposes just for the sake of doing do. He has done so with many girls, These girls have told Gwedolen about this man's attitude. He loves noone but likes proposing any woman.

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it

hasty generalization