What is ironic about this excerpt from "poetry" by marianne moore?

reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.

a. the speaker does not change her view of always appreciating poetry.
b. the speaker does not change her view of feeling disdain for poetry.
c. the speaker says she enjoys poetry but then decides that there is no use for it.
d. the speaker says she dislikes poetry but then makes an argument in favor of it.

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

This excerpt is repeated several times. what effect does this repetition have on the epic

What did mark twain contribute to the history of the novel? select all that apply.