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Answer 1

Read this excerpt from Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.
“… A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw;/The gnomes direct, to every atom just,/The pungent grains of titillating dust./Sudden with starting tears each eye o’erflows,/And the high dome re-echoes to his nose.”

This account of the conflict between Belinda and the Baron _________.
uses satire to ridicule the upper classes
uses irony to portray the ruling classes as noble
uses sarcasm to indicate contempt for the lower classes
uses understatement to downplay the rift between the classes

Answer 2

I think it might be A