The right answer is IRONY (C). As a literary device, irony is a contrast or absurdity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. It can also be a difference between what can be expected to happen and what occurs. In this excerpt we can notice the use of irony because it says Shelby is a weather forecaster and it the very day she left, weather became rough, meanig it is ironic how the the first event conditionated the following.
The literary device the author used in the passage is c) irony. It is quite ironic that the weather forecaster, who is supposed to know about the weather, chose just one day in the year to go camping, and it started raining.
Either "By 2007, more Americans lived in or near cities than they did in rural areas." or "<span>Even today, the need for work is a common reason people move to urban areas."</span>
