Drama Read the excerpt from a play. Then, answer the question(s). (1) (2) Belle: Having trouble deciding what will make you look like both a power to be reckoned with and a fetching young lady while you participate in your useless parade tomorrow? Meg (icily): What a lovely mood you're in, Belle. It quite takes my breath away. However, showing the world that women are determined to vote is hardly useless. Quite the opposite. And since you're a suffragist as much as I, I cannot fathom why you insist on mocking me (3) Belle: So what if ten thousand women show up and a goodly number of men join in? New York's legislators are not going to be swayed in their decision about giving us the vote by a march! Didn't what happened to women during the march in Washington teach you anything, Meg? Despite there being thousands of them, they were bullied and some were hurt, and they had to rely on male bystanders for protection, yet nothing was accomplished. Has Congress seriously considered amending the Constitution so that we can vote? I tell you, no. Oh, you're brave, all right. But you're going to ruin one of your nicest frocks and exhaust yourself while onlookers jeer and the press ignores you. We can't make closed-minded men suddenly see the light, like Saint Paul on the way to Damascus, by marching down Fifth Avenue. (4) (5) Meg (laying a white dress across the bed and turning, hands on hips, to confront her sister): Men have seen the light in thirteen states, Belle! If Congress won't make the vote for women a nationwide reality, then we'll just have to work harder and enfranchise women state by state. And all who agree with our goal simply must help us reach it. Even if you think it's useless, Belle, you must march with us; you simply must! Belle (turning aside to speak her thoughts privately): Oh, I know! But Jack's parents are so opposed, and Jack will never ask me to marry him if his parents don't approve! Yet, Meg will never respect me again if she guesses what is tearing me apart. Whatever shall I do? 1. Which quotation from the excerpt contains the clearest example of verbal irony? a. Having trouble deciding what will make you look like both a power to be reckoned with and a fetching young lady while you participate in your useless parade tomorrow? (paragraph 1) b. What a lovely mood you're in, Belle. It quite takes my breath away. (paragraph 2) c. And since you're a suffragist as much as I, I cannot fathom why you insist on mocking me. (paragraph 2) d. Has Congress seriously considered amending the Constitution so that we can vote? I tell you, no. (paragraph 3) 2. Read paragraph 5 from the play. Belle, turning aside to speak her thoughts privately: Oh, I know. But Jack's parents are so opposed, and Jack will never ask me to marry him if his parents don't approve. Yet, Meg will never respect me again if she guesses what is tearing me apart. Whatever shall I do? Combined with the information in this excerpt, which of the following events, if it had occurred earlier in the play, would create dramatic irony? a. Jack's parents, among the onlookers at the New York march, are heard voicing taunts at the suffragists. b. Meg and Jack have a conversation during which Jack expresses his belief that his parents approve of Belle but not of Meg. c. In dialogue with Belle, Meg expresses a strongly held belief that women's behavior should not be controlled by the attitudes of others. d. Talking with a friend, Jack expresses his fear that Belle is not right for him because she is not sufficiently modern in her thinking and behavior.