Read the following passage, an excerpt from an email newsletter:
During the congressional recess, Representative Smythe
will appear at a local community center. It is our intention
to greet him with a warm welcome and invite him to the
spelling bee we will be holding outside the center. We
encourage him to participate and will offer him words we
know he can spell, like cruelty and ignorance.
What information would be necessary for a reader to understand that the
passage is meant as satire?
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A. The representative recently embarrassed himself when he failed
to correctly spell a word in a classroom he was visiting.
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B. The representative's name is often misspelled as "Smith, which he
often has to correct.
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C. The representative was only recently elected to Congress and
received a private school education
D. The representative recently stated, 'I don't see why we should fund
antipoverty programs. I can't even spell poverty, because I see so
little of it

The development of new inventions in the field of space travel seemed rapid. how does the word rapid function in a sentence?

Which adjective best describes the narrators father according to the narrator

Read the paragraph. theodore roosevelt was the greatest president because as a leader of the progressive party, he brought about much-needed social, political, and economic reform. one of his economic reforms was to break up many large business trusts. by doing so, he took economic power out of the hands of the wealthy and powerful corporations and placed it in the hands of the ordinary people. theodore roosevelt’s reform policies, known as the square deal, to give the average citizen an equal share of opportunities. which sentence is the thesis of this paragraph? theodore roosevelt was the greatest president because as a leader of the progressive party, he brought about much-needed social, political, and economic reforms. one of his economic reforms was to break up many large business trusts. by doing so, he took economic power out of the hands of the people and placed it in the hands of the ordinary people. theodore roosevelt’s reform policies, known as the square deal, to give the average citizen an equal share of opportunities.