Read the passage from the importance of being earnest. lady bracknell. . i think some preliminary inquiry on my part would not be out of place. mr. worthing, is miss cardew at all connected with any of the larger railway stations in london? i merely desire information. until yesterday i had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a ter-. which excerpt from the passage contains a paradox and a pun? “my part would not be out of place.” “larger railway stations in london.” “i merely desire information.” “whose origin was a ter-.”

Letter A is the correct answer.

Explanation:

The Importance of Being Earnest was written by Oscar Wilde, an English writer. In general, the play talks about society standards and how they can be hard to achieve.

A paradox puts two things that seems to be contradictory to show a new result. A pun is used to create a humorous or rhetorical effect through homonyms or words that can have more than one meaning according to the context. Due to this, the phrase "my part would not be out of place" contains a paradox (a part belonging to one self out of one self) and a pun by the meaning of the sentence.

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.