The correct answer is the last option-The handicaps devised to conceal the ballerina’s strength and beauty actually accentuate them.
It is ironic because usually one associates beauty with something delicate and fragile. However, here it is the physical strength that makes this woman appealing. The author is not necessarily attracted by her physical appearance per se, but by the persistence and toughness present in her ability to endure the hardship of carrying the handicap bags.
Answer: D) The handicaps devised to conceal the ballerina’s strength and beauty actually accentuate them.
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 from "Harrison Bergeron" the irony is that the ballerina is wearing handicaps that are supposed to conceal her beauty, grace and strength, but they actually accentuate those characteristics, which seems contradictory, so the correct answer is option D.
Once in A Lifetime is from the 2nd part of Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth which is the collection of short stories. Like the other stories this story also deals with the cultural issues of Bengali Americans. Told from the perspective of the third-person, according to the option C, the narrator tells the difference of the modest house of her friend in this excerpt.
The English language has a variety of many grammatical inferences mainly because our language is more complex and is used as a national language. Such a selection of words, spellings etc are used so many can refer to a situation with grammar they can understand.
