Algernon. [raising his hat.] you are my little cousin cecily, i’m sure. cecily. you are under some strange mistake. i am not little. in fact, i believe i am more than usually tall for my age. –the importance of being earnest, oscar wilde the pun in this passage relies on which two definitions of the word little? “narrow” “younger” “unimportant” “brief” “small in size”

-younger

-small in size

“small in size”

“younger”

Explanation:

The pun works because Algernon speaks about his cousin as being younger than him, and Cecily undrestood the comment as her being smaller in size than him, and she had already grown, it´s in those two meanings that Oscar Wilde relies to make the pun.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .