Which of the following examples contains a comedic anagnorisis? A) Wilbur commits crimes in order to support his family. After some years, he realizes he needs to stop. It’s too late, however. The next day, he will be arrested by the police and lose everything.

B) Cheri has been socially anxious her whole life. After many failed attempts at changing her personality, she finally realizes all she needs to make friends is to be herself. She is accepted by society, and her new friends celebrate her with a birthday party.

C) Sarah has known Kyle since they were teenagers, but Sarah has always known she wanted something more. She could never decide what, though, so she and Kyle enjoyed life to the fullest as best friends. That is, until Kyle fell in love with Jennifer. Seeing them together, Sarah realized that she is in love with Kyle herself and decided to tell him so. Sarah and Kyle live happily ever after.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

In the excerpt above, what can be inferred by the statement, "the dillingham had been flung to the breeze during aformer period of prosperity.?

In which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject