Which situation is the best example of dramatic irony? a. a basketball coach sarcastically tells his team members they are all winners after they lose the state championship by a large margin. b. a man wants to go to a football game instead of on the date he has planned with his girlfriend, so he tells her he's sick with the flu. he is shocked later on when he runs into her at the game and sees her with another guy. c. the plot of a mystery twists and turns until the end of the story, when the reader finally learns who committed the crime and why. d. the reader knows that a teacher's new student is actually his long-lost sister, but the teacher is unaware of this until the end of the story.

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.

at the beginning of the story, elisa just has the small idea of wanting more attention, but as the story progressed, her desire for more attention grew larger. before she talked to the man with the wagon she was just focused on her chrysanthemums but when she talked to him and got some attention she enjoyed it, so she decided to get all dolled up for henry. but when they were on the way to dinner she was so upset because she saw the flowers on the side of the road and realized the man didn't take interest in her like she thought.