What makes "top of the food chain" an example of satire?
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a. it symbolizes events in a real-world situation.
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b. it provides a moral or lesson at the end of the story.
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c. it tells the story from the point of view of the animals.
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d. it criticizes the government's use of pesticides.

D. It criticizes the government's use of pesticides

Explanation:

Correct answer is the option D.

T. C. Boyle's story "Top of the Food Chain" is a dark humor critical piece that reflects on the government's use of pesticides and the consequences. In the story, the food chain in the village wrecks after failed government projects and the government goes as far as Australia to take the cats, to replace the ones that died, to stop the rodent invasion. The story takes inspiration from the actual events during the malaria-elimination program in Bolivia, Malaysia, and Thailand last century.

The narrator of the story explains all the disastrous effects of the anti-malaria program that wiped many of the species (flies, geckos, and finally cats ) in the nameless village. The tone is humorous and dark, but also very intelligent and with usage of irony.

As the story is a direct critic of the government and their involvement with the ecological process through wit and humor, it is a perfect example of satire

what are the following?

beowulf is filled with alliterations, caesuras, and kennings intended both to give the epic a musical, rhythmic quality and to assist the bard performing the epic in remembering the lines. just as the lyrics to our favorite songs are easier to remember than a context-free list of names or census data, poetic devices like those listed above stick in the bard's mind.

it is not known if beowulf was chanted, sung, or recited more like a modern day poem, but the poetic devices evident in the epic almost certainly had their origin in memorization and oral recitation.