Which of the following excerpts from "harrison bergeron" best illustrates irony?
“if you see this boy,” said the ballerina, “do not—i repeat, do not—try to reason with him.”
“he is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.”
“my god—” said george, “that must be harrison! ”
“gee—i could tell that one was a doozy,” said hazel.

B) “He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.”

Explanation: an irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems contrary to what one expects and it often has an amusing result. From the given options, the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron" that best illustrates irony is the corresponding to option B: “He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous” because it seems contradictory to think that a genius and an athlete is extremely dangerous.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.