In the short story "The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson, there are many instances of irony.
The title is ironic since the idea of a lottery is to win something, in this case, the winner is stoned to death.
The opening description in paragraph one is considered ironic because it introduces the setting by describing the day as "clear and sunny" but it ends with the death of a woman.
In the story, there are also some ironic names such as Mr. Graves and Mr. Summers. While one may think of the summer as something enjoyable, he is in charge of the random killing of a villager every single year.
I think the answer is (B)
Antonym of pall would be confidence according to the seeming meaning of the word.
Explanation:
The word pall can come to mean a lot of things. It has meant the cloth placed over a coffin in a funeral or the clouds covering the sky at some time. IT is associated with dark and gloom in general and this meaning is derived from that source.
The word can be associated with a sense of fatigue or losing energy in the way it comes to signify gloom and loss of life.
The opposite of that is confidence out of the options that are given here so it is the most probable antonym for the word.
During most of the 1920s,the United States economy grew. Many people invested their money.They bought stocks in companies.A stock is a small part of a company.The value of stock goes up when a company does well.The value of stock goes down when a company does poorly.Then stockowners lose money. By the end of the 1920s,the economy had started to slow down.In 1929,the value of many stocks quickly dropped. The American stock market crashed.Stockowners were frightened.Many stocks became worthless.Thousands of people lost all of their money. The economy became even weaker.Factories did not need many workers.Businesses closed.Many people lost their jobs,so unemployment went up.Some families had to give up their homes.Each day,hungry people waited for free food at community kitchens. Many farmers did not make enough money,so they went out of business.In the early 1930s,almost no rain fell in the Great Plains.Farmers’ lives became even harder.The soil turned to dust.This area was called the Dust Bowl.This time of hardship is known as the Great Depression.It was the worst depression in United States history.
