1. Read this passage from a play: HANS: (sarcastically) Melanie. A pleasure, as always. MELANIE: Hans. [Folds her arms and slouches in her chair.] I'm
ever so pleased to see you again. Based on the stage directions, what can
you most clearly infer?
O. That Melanie is excited to see Hans
That Melanie doesn't like Hans
That Hans likes Melanie a lot
That Hans is going to trick Melanie

irving effectively uses emotional responses to create suspense in the story.irving’s tone creates expectations for the reader, which in turn create suspense.irving’s suspense would have been more effective with more vivid details.irving’s story is not suspenseful

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.

answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.

the correct answer would b,   to show that she was very influential in the democratic party.