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Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”“A body and a spirit,” he repeated. “The body, lady, is like a house: it don’t go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always . . .”This excerpt contains

Which incident taken from O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” is the best example of irony?

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Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. “Tenente,” Passini said. “We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made.” “I know it is bad but we must finish it.” “It doesn’t finish. There is no finish to a war.” “Yes there is.” Passini shook his head. “War is not won by victory. What if we take San Gabriele? What if we take the Carso and Monfalcome and Trieste? Where are we then? Did you see all the far mountains to-day? Do you think we could take all them too? Only if the Austrians stop fighting. One side must stop fighting. Why don’t we stop fighting? If they come down into Italy they will get tired and go away. They have their own country. But no, instead there is a war.”Which best describes the effect of Passini’s long pieces of dialogue?

Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”He held the pose for almost fifty seconds and then he picked up his box and came on to the porch and dropped down on the bottom step. “Lady,” he said in a firm nasal voice, “I’d give a fortune to live where I could see me a sun do that every evening.”Keeping in mind the ending of the story, which best describes the irony of Mr. Shiftlet’s statement?

Read the passage from part 1 of "For the Win.”"Now Dean shows up to ruin everything,” he thought as he checked his gear one last time. "Dean knows nothing about dogs. He simply spent a whole bunch of money to buy a top team and a fancy sled.” Just thinking about that made Jake so burning mad that he didn’t even notice the temperature drop to two below zero.The blog posts of the last week had only made matters worse. Jake and Dean were the two youngest mushers in this year’s race, so they were the big story on the Internet. Reporters and bloggers had asked to interview both of them, and Jake had mostly talked about his dogs and their care, while Dean had mostly bragged. "Well, I can tell you right now that the only thing Jake will see during our two-week run through the wilderness is the back of my sled,” he had said.

Read the passage from part 2 of "For the Win.”Jake began to hear barks and yips as they continued off the trail. He thought that was a good sign, but he grew less certain as he approached. Dean’s dog team was in a tangle, and his sled was overturned. Jake jumped off his own sled and waded through the deep snow. He found Dean huddled near his gear, trying to stay warm."Dean, are you okay?” Jake asked.

Read the passage from part 1 of "For the Win.”Jake was just about to head down the trail again when a checkpoint helper stopped him because there was dangerous weather on the trail ahead. There were reports of a storm blowing through Rainy Pass, and it was best to stay put until it cleared.

Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life?

Because of his journalistic background, Ernest Hemingway’s diction tends to be

Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby.Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They were not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.The use of words such as “fashionable,” “superficial,” “bizarre,” and “sinister” provide

Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens. The appearance of Gatsby from the shadows suggests that

Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village.Keeping in mind Hemingway’s iceberg principle, what feeling is he trying to convey by describing the scene as an “entrance to a circus or a native village”?