Read the following passage, an excerpt from an email newsletter: During the congressional recess, Representative Smythe
will appear at a local community center. It is our intention
to greet him with a warm welcome and invite him to the
spelling bee we will be holding outside the center. We
encourage him to participate and will offer him words we
know he can spell, like cruelty and ignorance.
What information would be necessary for a reader to understand that the
passage is meant as satire?
A. The representative recently stated, "I don't see why we should fund
antipoverty programs. I can't even spell poverty, because I senso
little of it.