Which of the following are purposes of humor in kingsolver's essay? select all that apply. to make a serious point about peer pressure and individuality easier to accept to relate more easily to the audience to persuade us to protest fashion to poke fun at fashion in a nonthreatening way

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

If the court issues an injunction against the school's rule, will the petitioning students be glad or upset?

Myths often function as a connection to the , or the customs and beliefs, of a group of people.