Read the beginning of The Importance of Being Earnest. Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

The Persons in the Play
John Worthing, J. P.
Algernon Moncrieff
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D. D.
Merriman, Butler
Lane, Manservant
Lady Bracknell
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Cecily Cardew
Miss Prism, Governess

First Act
SCENE
Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.

[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]

Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

Lane. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.

Which analysis of the beginning of The Importance of Being Earnest is the most accurate?

Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

Question 15 of 25 2 points read the following excerpt from a speech: it has been suggested that all automobiles be converted to electric power by the year 2020. _ there simply isn't the infrastructure in place to accommodate such a change. which word or phrase best connects the ideas in these sentences? o a. nowadays o b. therefore o c. in contrast o d. unfortunately