Algernon. [raising his hat.] you are my little cousin cecily, i’m sure. cecily. you are under some strange mistake. i am not little. in fact, i believe i am more than usually tall for my age. –the importance of being earnest, oscar wilde the pun in this passage relies on which two definitions of the word little? “narrow” “younger” “unimportant” “brief” “small in size”

-younger

-small in size

“small in size”

“younger”

Explanation:

The pun works because Algernon speaks about his cousin as being younger than him, and Cecily undrestood the comment as her being smaller in size than him, and she had already grown, it´s in those two meanings that Oscar Wilde relies to make the pun.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

explanation:

appeal to ethos is your answer.