Answer:
c. Instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law, Mrs. Crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter.
Explanation:
The excerpt presents a situational irony that refers to the situation where something is expected to happen, but the opposite happens. In the case of the excerpt, the reader might be expecting Mrs. Carter to be happy that her daughter was married, happy, and given a new member to the family, who is Mrs. Carter's son-in-law. However, instead of Mrs. Carter being happy to have a new son-in-law, Mrs. Carter was very sad to see her daughter leaving her home and tracing her own path.
Virgil reminds him that in Hell what God wills is done.
This sentence refers to Inferno, written by Dance Alighieri. Virgil acts as Dante's guide into Hell, telling him what each of the characters did in order to get to Hell. Charon is the ferryman who took them across the river Acheron, although reluctantly.
It is important for humans to explore space.
This would be a persuasive essay because it’s an option, and the student would be trying to convince others of it. The other three are facts.
