All of the following sentences from "Wanted: A Town Without a Crazy" use exaggeration to create a comic effect except
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"Around my waist I bound a thick belt and hung a frying pan to one end on a cord. The frying pan was to be my guitar. I hung things all around my belt: a ladle, wooden spoons, a potty, an old electric clock, a women's umbrella, a cast-iron stove-lid."
"Around my waist I bound a thick belt and hung a frying pan to one end on a cord. The frying pan was to be my guitar. I hung things all around my belt: a ladle, wooden spoons, a potty, an old electric clock, a women's umbrella, a cast-iron stove-lid."
"As soon as I landed, eight or ten kids followed me. Their numbers grew to fifty, one hundred. You know kids! Everyone hear about me from them; that's how my fame spread through the town from the first day."
"As soon as I landed, eight or ten kids followed me. Their numbers grew to fifty, one hundred. You know kids! Everyone hear about me from them; that's how my fame spread through the town from the first day."
"It kills me to think that while these poor people were suffering all those years from the lack of a loony, I was putting numbers on documents, kowtowing when I entered the director's office, and wasting all that time for a mere thousand lira a month."
"It kills me to think that while these poor people were suffering all those years from the lack of a loony, I was putting numbers on documents, kowtowing when I entered the director's office, and wasting all that time for a mere thousand lira a month."
"Now when I enter the mayor's office, I don't say selam or hello and don't even bother to knock. I walk right in, lean against the mayor's arm then settle myself into an easy chair. After thrusting an expensive cigarette into my hand, he lights it with his own lighter and orders me a coffee."
"Now when I enter the mayor's office, I don't say selam or hello and don't even bother to knock. I walk right in, lean against the mayor's arm then settle myself into an easy chair. After thrusting an expensive cigarette into my hand, he lights it with his own lighter and orders me a coffee."
Which of the following sentences from "Wanted: A Town Without a Crazy" uses irony to create a comic effect?
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"After handing in my resignation and leaving, I had heard no news of Hilmi Bey again. But the Hilmi Bey I knew was a very serious-minded, sober man."
"After handing in my resignation and leaving, I had heard no news of Hilmi Bey again. But the Hilmi Bey I knew was a very serious-minded, sober man."
"They say that a lunatic's strength is superior but I managed to keep close behind him. When he speeded up, I ran even faster to try and catch up with him."
"They say that a lunatic's strength is superior but I managed to keep close behind him. When he speeded up, I ran even faster to try and catch up with him."
"It happened one Friday, Sefer the truckdriver ran him over. Believe me, we gave Crazy Davut a funeral that the town won't even give Mayor Riza Bey when he dies."
"It happened one Friday, Sefer the truckdriver ran him over. Believe me, we gave Crazy Davut a funeral that the town won't even give Mayor Riza Bey when he dies."
"First I went and had an extra long, bright red topcoat made. I smeared it with mud to make it look old and ripped holes in it left and right."
"It happened one Friday, Sefer the truckdriver ran him over. Believe me, we gave Crazy Davut a funeral that the town won't even give Mayor Riza Bey when he dies."
Read the following passage from "Wanted: A Town Without a Crazy."
"OK," I continued, "but when are you going to put an end to this lunacy?"
He grinned: "Are you nuts? There are lots of professional lunatics in this country. One of them would snatch my spot, so I can't leave town. What's more, I'm sort of used to this insanity."
As he leaped up and skipped away, he said, "Don't tell anyone. Even if you did, they wouldn't believe you!"
Which of the following stylistic elements is employed by the author to create a comedic effect in this passage?
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exaggeration
exaggeration
irony
irony
parody
parody
sarcasm
sarcasm
Choose the correct verb that agrees with the subject of the sentence.
Joey and Nathan ________ silly in class today.
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is acting
is acting
are acting