They drove back to the house to let the old woman off and pick up the lunch. when they were ready to leave, she stood staring in the window of the car, with her fingers clenched around the glass. tears began to seep sideways out of her eyes and run along the dirty creases in her face. “i ain’t ever been parted with her for two days before,” she said. which best describes the irony in the excerpt? a. mrs. crater has never been separated from her daughter, and now she must let her go for two days. b. mrs. crater’s tears are insincere because she is happy that her daughter is finally leaving her alone. c. instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law, mrs. crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter. d. as the two part ways, lucynell does not feel the same amount of emotional despair as her mother.

C) Instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law, Mrs. Crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter.

Explanation: an irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems contrary to what one expects and it often has an amusing result. In the given excerpt we can see the description of a situation in which a mother is really sad because she is going to be separated from her daughter for two days. This situation is an example of an irony because Mrs. Crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law.

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

answer: first person

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