Question 5 of 20
2 points
read this passage from "the city without us' by alan weisman:
never cut, but mightily changed. until only recently, it was
known as the hemlock forest for its shady stands of that
graceful conifer, but almost every hemlock here is now!
dead, slain by a japanese insect smaller than the period at
the end of this sentence, which arrived in new york in the
mid-1980s.
which statement best explains how irony is used in the passage?
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a. an insect nearly microscopic in size is responsible for felling a
forest of conifers.
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b. human beings cannot be blamed for the death of the hemlock
forest.
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c. the destruction of the hemlock forest occurred only as recently
as the 1980s.
d. an insect imported from japan is the cause of the decimation of an entire force