Please Help! 30 points! Part A
How does the author provide readers with important information about Aunt Gertrude in the passage's exposition?

1.) The author has the narrator's uncle read aloud a letter written by Aunt Gertrude.

2.) The author foreshadows the ending by mentioning Aunt Gertrude's well-known generosity.

3.) The author includes dialogue in which characters talk about Aunt Gertrude's traits.

4.) The author includes a flashback that details the narrator's interactions with and views on his aunt.

Question 2
Part B
Which sentence from the exposition best illustrates the function of this part of the story as identified in Part A?

1.) “This was not the time to press Aunt Gertrude for details, and just a few minutes later, she died peacefully.”

2.) “I’ll never forget the last moments before she died.”

3.) “Although I never felt particularly close to Aunt Gertrude, it was comforting to know she was close by in her last years.”

4.) "I had seen Aunt Gertrude more in the past two years than I had ever before in my life, and she could be terrifying, often wearing a mean scowl on her deeply lined face."

Item 7 shakespeare often puts the audience in a situation where they know more than one of the characters does. how does shakespeare increase the tension in the four-lovers story line by giving the audience information that one or more of the characters does not have? the audience knows that hermia’s father really approves of lysander and there is no need for hermia and lysander to run away. this knowledge builds tension because the audience wonders if hermia and lysander’s relationship will survive a night in the woods. the audience knows that helena really hates hermia and wants to hurt her. this knowledge builds tension when helena tells demetrius of hermia’s plan to run away because the audience wonders if hermia will be caught and punished. the audience knows that lysander and demetrius are under the spell, but helena and hermia do not. this knowledge builds tension and makes the audience eager to see what will happen next. the audience knows that oberon is observing the lovers, but the lovers do not know. this knowledge builds tension because oberon falls in love with helena and decides to become a human so he can marry her.