Which sentence from this excerpt reflects a compare- and-contrast text structure?
O Pietro and Rosa Sicurella lived with their nine
children in Adrano, Sicily prior to coming to the
United States.
O When Giuseppe died in 1916, the Sicurella
siblings living in New York decided not to return to
Sicily--the rest of the family joined them after World
War I.
o The Sicurella family typified the kinds of
professions many Italian immigrants undertook
once they came to America in the early 1900s.
Giuseppe D'Amico, Concetta Sicurella's husband,
immigrated with his wife's family, leaving his own
family behind in Sicily.

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lady bracknell. well, i must say, algernon, that i think it is high time that mr. bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. this shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. . i should be much obliged if you would ask mr. bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on saturday, for i rely on you to arrange my music for me. it is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when every one has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much. what aspect of lady bracknell’s behavior does wilde use to poke fun at the importance placed on frivolous events in formal society? her concern with a party instead of mr. bunbury’s health her interest in playing classical music at her reception her jealousy over algernon’s friendship with the sickly mr. bunbury her concern about the health of algernon’s friend

The tone of a story is the author's attitude toward the subject. provide two examples that support the conclusion that the tone of this story is ironic.