Which of the following is an example of situational irony?
a. a popular band goes on tour, selling out each performance before you can buy a ticket.
b. a man plans a july picnic in the mojave desert, but it is spoiled by rain.
c. the shyest person in class is too nervous to give a speech in front of the school. d. a boston school district cancels classes because of a snowstorm in mid-january.

The correct answer is B.

Explanation:

The situational irony is an instrumental tool or device that is commonly used in the literature to put a twist in the plot so that incongruties appears when the story is heading somewhere and by the end tends to turn its direction of events. Therefore that the correct answer is ''B'', because the man that planned the picnic thinks that it won't rain, as it is a dessert where commonly never rains, and at the end it rains, giving place to a twist that the man did not expect.

americans had many intangible advantages. well since the british fought a war far from home military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations, and the british had an extremely difficult objective. they had to persuade the americans to give up their claims of independence, americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. this cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence.

answer: born in saint-dié, in the vosges department, france, he studied law, and was called to the bar at paris in 1854,[2] but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspapers, particularly to le temps. he attacked the second french empire with great violence, directing his opposition especially against baron haussmann, prefect of the seine department. a series of his articles in le temps was later republished as the fantastic tales of haussmannlaxupa (1868).[2]

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