Question

Jack. My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn’t a dentist. It produces a false impression. This excerpt best illustrates which feature of a comedy of manners?

witty wordplay
a commentary on marriage
a comparison of country and city life
concern with appearance over morality

Answer 1

This excerpt best illustrates;

A. Witty wordplay

Jack’s point seems to be that dentists don’t talk like anyone else.

Answer 2

When it comes to the features of a comedy of manners, we can select the following option as the one containing a specific feature that is illustrated in the passage:

A. Witty wordplay

Oscar Wilde's use of witty wordplay

In the passage of "The Importance of Being Earnest," Wilde makes use of witty wordplay to express sarcasm or criticism. Wordplay means the characters say one thing on the surface but mean another deep down.

Here, Jack pretends to be criticizing Algernon's way of speaking, but he is in fact criticizing dentists. What he means is that dentists don't talk in a normal way.

With the information above in mind, we can select option A as the correct answer.

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