Which of the following is an example of situational irony?
a. a popular band goes on tour, selling out each performance before you can buy a ticket.
b. a man plans a july picnic in the mojave desert, but it is spoiled by rain.
c. the shyest person in class is too nervous to give a speech in front of the school. d. a boston school district cancels classes because of a snowstorm in mid-january.

The correct answer is B.

Explanation:

The situational irony is an instrumental tool or device that is commonly used in the literature to put a twist in the plot so that incongruties appears when the story is heading somewhere and by the end tends to turn its direction of events. Therefore that the correct answer is ''B'', because the man that planned the picnic thinks that it won't rain, as it is a dessert where commonly never rains, and at the end it rains, giving place to a twist that the man did not expect.

post the grid otherwise i cant .

also it sounds like a math question not history.

the first historical instance of china engaging in internationalism was during the han dynasty.[1] at the start of the han dynasty, the huns in the north were attacking the frontiers of han and trying to obtain riches. emperor wu of han wanted to gain an alliance with a country called dayuezhi so the two countries could join together and fight against the huns.[2] to obtain this alliance, emperor wu sent zhang qian to the west to establish economic and cultural connections.[2] history records that during the han dynasty there were four primary avenues of contact between china and europe. they included the northern land route, the central land route, the southern sea route, and the far southern sea route.[1] the most famous of these routes is the central land route, or the classical silk road, comprising a network of roads stretching from northwest china to the ports of syria and the black sea, which passed through the oasis of the turkestans and northern persia.[1] the silk road was significant for chinese emperors because it provided dominance over central asia by developing resources and provided new markets for the export of china's most valuable resources.[1]