Why is it ironic that the mother asks her child to go to church in the story "Ballad of Birmingham"

"Ballad of Birmingham" is a story about how a young girl died in a church because a bomb has exploded in the girl's location. It show irony when the mother asks her daughter to go to church instead of going to join the rally to protest the racial freedom. Ironic means, when happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this. The mother insisted to let her daughter go to church instead of the rally, because she thought that the church her daughter will go in is safe and peaceful. In the end her daughter was known to have died because of the explosion.

Explanation:

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your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.