Read the passage from the importance of being earnest. lady bracknell. . i think some preliminary inquiry on my part would not be out of place. mr. worthing, is miss cardew at all connected with any of the larger railway stations in london? i merely desire information. until yesterday i had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a ter-. which excerpt from the passage contains a paradox and a pun? “my part would not be out of place.” “larger railway stations in london.” “i merely desire information.” “whose origin was a ter-.”

Letter A is the correct answer.

Explanation:

The Importance of Being Earnest was written by Oscar Wilde, an English writer. In general, the play talks about society standards and how they can be hard to achieve.

A paradox puts two things that seems to be contradictory to show a new result. A pun is used to create a humorous or rhetorical effect through homonyms or words that can have more than one meaning according to the context. Due to this, the phrase "my part would not be out of place" contains a paradox (a part belonging to one self out of one self) and a pun by the meaning of the sentence.

for me, i'd go with (c) satisfied or (b) overjoyed because if you read it a couple of times, it makes since that it is c or b. it can't b (a) angry because booker was never angry about anything. at the end of the paragraph, booker states, "i think there are not many men in our country who have had the privilege of naming themselves in the way that i " i think that sentence kind of gives away the also, some words in the paragraph can also you like for example, "indulged," "calmly," "perplexity," "privilege," and defining words that you don't know, can you understand more of that paragraph and it can also increase your comprehension. : )

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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