ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL

The morning dawned dark and gloomy, then rain began to pour. This was the one day out of the year that Shelby, a weather forecaster, had taken off work to go camping. Which literary device did the author use in the passage?a. understatement
b. paradox
c. irony
d. allegory

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Answer 1
Answer: The literary device the author used in the passage is c) irony.
It is quite ironic that the weather forecaster, who is supposed to know about the weather, chose just one day in the year to go camping, and it started raining. 
Answer 2
Answer:

The right answer is IRONY (C). As a literary device, irony is a contrast or absurdity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. It can also be a difference between what can be expected to happen and what occurs. In this excerpt we can notice the use of irony because it says Shelby is a weather forecaster and it the very day she left, weather became rough, meanig it is ironic how the the first event conditionated the following.  

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Answer:

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Explanation:

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