What did realist authors strive to do

What is this scene's impact on the audience? select two options. the verbal irony adds some humor to the scene. the verbal irony shows that brutus is honorable. the verbal irony shows the audience that casca is easily led. the situational irony shows the audience that brutus is honorable. the situational irony shows the audience that casca is not very smart.

Read this line from the poem. and while i thus at random rove what effect does alliteration have in this line? a. it emphasizes the unpredictability of the speaker's pursuit of pleasure. b.it makes the speaker seem fair and impartial. c. it adds a lighthearted tone to the speaker's words. d.it contributes to the sorrowful tone of the poem.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?