All of the following are good recommendations for choosing a subject for a persuasive speech a. choose a subject that is important to you. b. choose a controversial subject. c. choose an unfamiliar subject that will require research. d. choose a subject for which there is an audience you would like to influence

Which three sentences in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that the author's tone is mocking?

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "