Irony is the difference between what is being said and what is being meant.
English writer Anne Bradstreet used several instances of irony in her poems, mostly to mock society's assumptions as regards the role of women. For example:
"Who says my hand a needle better fits"
In the example above, Bradstreet refers to how society constrains women to do housework chores.
Answer:
The correct answer is A I believe.
Explanation:
Blasphemous means against God or sacred things. And when it is used in the sentence you have here, it doesn't make sense.
Tactic means an action or strategy planned carefully.
Malediction means bringing about evil or destruction, pain.
I
Answer:
Explanations:
Mrs. Higgins says that she will also attend the wedding with Eliza, and Pickering leaves with the bridegroom. As Eliza is about to leave, Higgins blocks the doorway. He says that he wants Eliza to come back, but he will not change his manners, which he maintains are exactly the same as the Colonel's.