What is ironic about the following passage from narrative of the life of frederick douglass? "in 1832, my master attended a methodist camp-meeting held in the bayside, talbot county, and there experienced religion. i indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would, at any rate, make him more kind and humane. it neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them. if it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways; for i believe him to have been a much worse man after his conversion than before." a. master thomas decides to free his slaves after finding religion. b. master thomas is overpowered by his new-found religion. c. his master is crueler after finding religion than he was before. d. his master finds religion when douglass believed he didn't have a soul.

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

d. it compares the speaker reflection to a predatory bird that haunts the speaker