The following scenario exemplifies which course concept best: Katie gets home from work and vents to her roommate about a situation with her boyfriend. "I know what’s going to happen. I’m about to call and tell him I’m too tired to hang out tonight. He’ll say ‘You obviously care more about work than me.’ I’ll say, ‘We’ve been through this. I need to make money right now. Of course I’d rather be with you than work.’ Then he’ll say, ‘Well, actions speak louder than words.’ And so on until we’re yelling through the phone and we hang up on each other."

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.

Which statement best describes an example of irony from chapters 22 and 23 of the adventures of huckleberry finn