Irony is:
A. a literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions.
The definition of irony is: <span>a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
An example of irony would be that </span><span>the name of Britain’s biggest dog (until it died recently) was 'Tiny'.</span>
Nick agrees to arrange a meeting between Daisy and Gatsby because he <span>had learned a lot about their past relationship and he wanted to make Gatsby happy.
He was aware of the fact that Gatsby had been loving Daisy for a very long time, and that she was actually the reason why he was living there and why he became rich. He also knew that Daisy still had feelings for Gatsby, and he just wanted them to be together and love each other. </span>
It was named after the ship, <em>Mayflower,</em> which is the ship the English colonist used to arrive to America.
I think perhaps that the influence the bloody American civil war had on subsequent literature would probably be relative to the hard realities of the battlefield and life in the army camps as experienced by the ordinary e a soldiers on both sides of the conflict as opposed to the lofty ideal of opposing slavery could be a reason why realism returned to American literature.
Answer:a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
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