Answer:
The most outstanding verbal irony in “The Landlady” is when the landlady shows the room to Billy she tells that, “It's all ready for you, my dear.”(Dahl, 176) which indirectly makes the reader realize that she does not only mean bed and breakfast for a couple of days, indeed she tries to give the message to the reader ...
Explanation:
A few words with the prefix pater/part are:
patriarch - head of the household
paternal - relating to the father
paternity - test to determine child's father.
To be honest they all are great choices but personally I would suggest answer C.
Hope this helps.
There is no prepositional phrase.