Read the following passage, an excerpt from an email newsletter: During the congressional recess, Representative Smythe
will appear at a local community center. It is our intention
to greet him with a warm welcome and invite him to the
spelling bee we will be holding outside the center. We
encourage him to participate and will offer him words we
know he can spell, like cruelty and ignorance.
What information would be necessary for a reader to understand that the
passage is meant as satire?
O A. The representative was only recently elected to Congress and
received a private-school education.
OB. The representative recently stated, "I don't see why we should fund
antipoverty programs. I can't even spell poverty, because I see so
little of it."
O C. The representative recently embarrassed himself when he failed
to correctly spell a word in a classroom he was visiting.
O D. The representative's name is often misspelled as "Smith, which he
often has to correct.