Which phrase in the passage is an example of verbal
irony?
And as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as
hopeful a condition. They cannot get work, and
consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a
degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to
common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and
thus the country and themselves are happily delivered
from the evils to come.
- A Modest Proposal,
Jonathan Swift

A."young labourers"
B. “Cannot get to work”
C. “If at any time”
D. “Happily delivered”

The speaker in the “to a mouse” regrets that the mouse runs away so fast because the

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

What is the author's purpose in both patrick henry's speech and thomas paines common sense