Which statement best explains the situational irony
that occurs in the passage?
Read the pass...
English, 19.07.2021 04:30 julliette27
Which statement best explains the situational irony
that occurs in the passage?
Read the passage from "The Storyteller."
The children moved listlessly towards the aunt's end
of the carriage. Evidently her reputation as a
storyteller did not rank high in their estimation
In a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent
intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her
listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably
uninteresting story about a little girl who was good,
and made friends with every one on account of her
goodness and was finally saved from a mad bull by a
number of rescuers who admired her moral character
"Wouldn't they have saved her if she hadn't been
good?" demanded the bigger of the small girls. It was
exactly the question that the bachelor had wanted to
ask
The aunt expects the children to laugh at the story,
but they do not
O The children expect their aunt to tell a funny story,
but she does not
The children do not like the story, even though it is
very interesting
The aunt tells a story with a moral, but the children
ignore the lesson
"Well yes," admitted the aunt lamely, "but I don't think
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