<p>CB BB Edition 2, Test 2, Section 4, the last passage..</p>
<p>I need help with numbers 19 and 25.</p>
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<li><p>I don't understand why Lews' use of "heavens" is ironic........what is the word ironic to?</p></li>
<li><p>I really don't understand his dry sense of humor. What is he even saying? What does Lewis' response mean? Please elaborate!! Thanks!!!!!</p></li>
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<li><p>Because when the real estate people get a hold of the land, the result will be the opposite of “heaven” for Lewis. Right now, it is wild and uninhabited, and just what Lewis wants. But once they ruin it, the land will be underwater or made into homesites.</p></li>
<li><p>It may be easier to eliminate wrong answers for this one. It’s not (A) because he isn’t openly criticizing anything. It’s not (B) because he’s not mean. “Malice” is an extreme word and would take extreme meanness on Bobby’s part to be correct. It isn’t (D) because Bobby doesn’t openly confess anything. And it is not (E) because nothing is observed. An observation has to be made with the eyes (like “Lewis squinted” or “The rain started”). Bobby’s comments are what he heard, not saw.</p></li>
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<p>It is dry humor in the last line—“but most of them just lie down until the feeling passes.” He’s saying that he’s heard that men often get the itch to go do something adventurous like this, but (and this is the funny part) most of them just lie down until the itch goes away. Yeah, I know it’s not funny. But if you heard the guy say it with a smile on his face, it would likely get you to smile, too.</p>
<p>Ah, that makes so much more sense!! And hohoho, that’s funny. Not.</p>
<p>Lol, thanks :)</p>