Which excerpt from “A Work in Progress” is the clearest example of comic diction? A: Most people learn to walk in very high heels. They bend their ankle so the ball of the foot touches the ground first; you have more stability.

B: The "skin color" was the rubber foam foot painted "Caucasian," which is the nastiest shade of nuclear peach that you've ever seen in your life.

C: So at some point I get caught in a rip current, and I'm migrating from my vantage point of where I could see my parents' towel. And I'm taking in water, and I'm fighting, fighting, fighting.

D: And then when I was fourteen it was Easter Sunday, and I was gonna be wearing a dress that I had purchased with my own money—the first thing I ever bought that wasn't on sale.