Read the description. circle the two answers that fit the setting.

1. two friends are at a street fair. the mood is happy.
(a) heartbreaking sobs
(b) the smell of hot dogs
(c) sounds of music

2. an elevator has stopped between floors. it is late at night.
(a) an alarm ringing
(b) the lights go out
(c) sunshine

3. twelve people are on a river raft. they are laughing and paddling.
(a) animated conversation
(b) sound of trucks on a road
(c) life jackets

1. (b.) The smell of hot dogs

  (c.)  Sounds of music

2. (a.) An alarm ringing

  (b.) The lights go out

3. (a.) Animated conversation

   (c.) Life jackets

Explanation:

We can use context clues as well as the process of elimination to figure out which details go together with the sentences properly. Heartbreaking sobs, don't fit in sentence one, as it already says that the mood was happy. Sunshine doesn't go together with sentence two, as it already says that it was late at night. And lastly, the sound of trucks doesn't go together with sentence three, because the setting is on a river.

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there you go thats what we are missing

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.