How does the oxymoron "cheery fire" affect
this sentence?
A cheery fire was burning in the grate, and I
sat down before it with a comforting sense of
relief.
It highlights that the narrator is in
need of a bright place to sit.
It gives the reader an idea of how
warm the room is for the narrator.
It tells the reader that the fire is
soothing
It shovlin that the fire is loud

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Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

What did mark twain contribute to the history of the novel? select all that apply.