Question

Read this excerpt from "A Visit from the Goon Squad."

That’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“Eyes in My Head,” “X’s and O’s,” “Who’s Watching Hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. Untouched.

How does the author use satire in this excerpt?
a)The author is criticizing media censorship.
b)The author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.
c)The author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.
DThe author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: DThe author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself

Step-by-step explanation:

Satire is when irony, humour, irony, or exaggeration is being used in order to people's vices or shortcomings and make them change.

Based on the question, the author use satire in this excerpt by mocking man’s inability to freely express himself. Therefore, the correct option is D.