The narrator of this passage claims that he isn't going to tell his whole autobiography," but then proceeds to tell about himself anyway, what literary device is this?
A. symbolism
B. allusion
C. irony
D. metaphor

C. irony

Explanation:

A. is not the correct answer. Symbolism is representing one idea through artistic imagery with symbols and metaphors.

B. is not the right answer. The allusion is indirectly explaining something, not explicitly going into the details of it, but making an artistic connection.

C. is the right answer. Irony presents us the two radically different ideas. It is most often used as a humorous device. We can read that this case is the irony as the narrator first declines to tell his autobiography, but then actually does so despite his promises and words. We see these two ideas as contrasting – despite the first promise, we still get the story of the narrator at the end.

D. is not the right answer. A metaphor is a figure of the screen through which the writer refers to one thing through the other, by similarities of the ideas.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.