which quotation from "uses and abuses of the umbrella"  most clearly  demonstrates that the author is using a comical tone? "cork hats and newspapers of more than eight pages were invented for the rain.""an intelligent woman once said: 'the umbrella is an article proper to the desk.'"" would determine that when the rains begin the umbrellas disappear.""the umbrella, though we are led to believe otherwise, was not made for the rain."

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination