What great weather we are having; thunder and lightning always make an outdoor pool party fun!

What is the verbal irony in this statement?

The thunder and lightning was unexpected but will make the party fun.
We know thunder and lightning ruin a pool party but the speaker does not.
Thunder and lightning will ruin a pool party, so the weather really isn't "great."
Nice weather is characterized by thunder and lightning.

C. Thunder and lightning will ruin a pool party, so the weather really isn't "great."

Explanation:

Verbal irony, simply put, is saying one thing, but meaning another, usually completely opposite. It is closely associated with sarcasm and it is often used for humorous effect.

In this particular case, it is obvious that thunderstorm and pool party don't go together. The author is aware of this, so, by saying the weather is "great", when clearly it is not, he uses a verbal irony.

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a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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