<p>yea i either didnt answer the didactic one, or put in the wrong answer.</p>
<p>mijehar, I don't think it was didactic
if there was a blank, I'd put PEDENTIC instead of didactic....becuase the passage didn't reflect Lewis in positive light
I definitely thought it was the second choice, which I don'r emember the meaning...(i put didactic and changed it later)</p>
<p>I think it was ill-concieved failure, because comic books are not meant to be educational, thus ill-concieved. They were failures because he said they were horrible.</p>
<p>The reason it is dry humor is that the passage stated the man speaking was cynical, so most likely anything he says contains some type of dry humor.</p>
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well... "ill conceived failures" doesnt even go with the light hearted tone of the essay
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<p>This essay is by no means light hearted.</p>
<p>He gets quite angry at the end.</p>
<p>I put ill concieved failures. Those comic books that try to be serious are simply badly concieved failures! They just don't have popularity because that's not what comedy is good for.</p>
<p>On the other hand, foolish imitations? Who were they exactly imitating? They wern't imitating anyone. They just tried to make more educational comic books and failed.</p>
<p>did you guys say it was "ironic" when he was commenting on the real estate agents heavens??</p>
<p>for wild i put underdeveloped</p>
<p>and i put stringent</p>
<p>"The reason it is dry humor is that the passage stated the man speaking was cynical, so most likely anything he says contains some type of dry humor."</p>
<p>yea i remember the actual passage stating he was being cynical
lmfao @ the giveaway there...</p>
<p>crom
the second author never said comics were horrible
indeed he said they were a good relaxation for kids
but he did say they were a foolish imitation of real learning and were not meant for that</p>
<p>His statement was not sarcastic though. He observed that most people continued to lie down once they had the feeling.</p>
<p>"did you guys say it was "ironic" when he was commenting on the real estate agents heavens??"</p>
<p>i put contemptous, or something along those lines.</p>
<p>"the passage didn't reflect Lewis in positive light"
I'm pretty sure it portrayed Lewis in a neutral, if not positive, light. He was depicted as a individualistic, adventurous sort of guy. The narrator did not have negative feelings towards Lewis.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's didactic which means intended to instruct. And the passage said "Ah, here comes A lesson. A moral.....blah"</p>
<p>i thought bobby was being critical oF Lewis...it sounded as though he was mocking/bellttling him kind of</p>
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but he did say they were a foolish imitation of real learning and were not meant for that
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<p>The question wasn't refering to comic books in general, but to comic books made in the purpose of educating children.</p>
<p>CRAP... i didn't even see didactic as one of the choices as a descriptor of lewis... i think i put remiss... shoot shoot shoot shoot.... :(</p>
<p>i think the speaker revered lewis.. if anything</p>
<p>yea then youre right guju, it def. is didactic.</p>
<p>It was didactic. But I'm pretty sure the statement that he used were not sarcastic at all. They were straight out observations and did not seem sarcastic or ironic to me.</p>
<p>contemptuous and ironic were both the correct answers...none of the others fit for those 2 questions</p>
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i think the speaker revered lewis.. if anything
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<p>He clearly didn't. He said he and that third friend make fun of Lewis because he thinks he knows so much or whatever.</p>