<u>Situational irony</u> is when the opposite of the expected occurs.
<u>Example:</u> You do not study and guess or select random answer choices on a test, but receive a wonderful grade.
Answer:
Prefix
Explanation:
The root is the base word.
An Affix added on the the root word helps change it's meaning.
A prefix is a type of affix that is placed in front of a word to change it's meaning (example: un-, which means not, added on to the word "happy" makes "unhappy").
A suffix is a type of affix added on to the end of the root word (example: -er, which means one who preforms the action, added on to "read" creates "reader"
In choosing literary essay topics, there are certain criteria that
should be taken into considerations. It is easy to create topics but are
they enough to be considered as interesting? Here, we can say that a
topic is strong if you can add more information about it and open for
other questions and opinions, but it is weak if the topic is plainly
about something we can easily answer. So, here are the answers of the
following topics given: 1. Weak 2. Weak 3. Strong 4. Strong 5.
Strong 6. Weak
<u>Answer:</u> Jonathan has an optimistic view regarding life. No matter what happens, he seems to look on the bright side. For example, during the civil war, he was forced to give up two pounds in order to save his bike from a man impersonating a soldier. A more pessimistic character might have been bitter at having to lose money to a dishonest person. Instead, Jonathan was overjoyed that he could save his bike. In fact he called it a bonus "miracle," though still one that was inferior compared to the fact that four out of five of his family members survived the war. Because of his happy and positive outlook on life, things that would have been considered "bad luck" were a series of miracles for Jonathan. He did not spend time being sad that he did not have a job. Instead, he used the bonus miracle bike to make money ferrying camp officials. Instead of being angry that such people had so much money that they could throw it away without thinking about it, he was overjoyed that he had made a "small fortune." At the end of the story, Jonathan's apparent luck comes to an end when he is robbed of his ex gratia or "egg rasher." But even that does not change Jonathan's attitude about life. He explains to his neighbors that the egg rasher, in the larger picture, doesn't mean a thing. Even after being robbed by armed men, the family wakes the next morning ready to continue their work. "he was already strapping his five-gallon demijohn to his bicycle carrier and his wife, sweating in the open fire, was turning over akara balls in a wide clay bowl of boiling oil. In the corner his eldest son was rinsing out dregs of yesterday's palm wine from old beer bottles."
Here's the criteria for Persuasive:
May make claims based on opinion. May not take opposing ideas into account.
Persuades by appealing to the audience’s emotion or by relying on the character or credentials of the writer – less on the merits of his or her reasons and evidence. Emotion-based.
I believe he's using mostly persuasive reasoning.
Here's the criteria for Argumentative reasoning:
Makes claims based on factual evidence. Makes counter-claims. The author takes opposing views into account. Neutralizes or "defeats" serious opposing ideas. Convinces audience through the merit and reasonableness of the claims and proofs offered. (I only see use of the first and last one, not 2nd or 3rd one). Here's a link for your reference. You can do a google search on persuasive vs argumentative.
Often compares texts or ideas to establish a position.
Logic based.
