Irony is a figure of speech in which words convey the opposite of their literal meaning or a situation is contradictory to what one would expect. So the answer would be C.
The word "singing" is used in the title to expose the pride an American takes in his work. It is one of the iconic poems written.
<u>Explanation</u>:
- Walt Whitman used "singing" in his poem titled "I hear America singing" because in this poem he portrays how different people of America is singing about the pride in their work.
- Usually, poets choose the title that should be relevant to the content in the poem. As every people in the poem such as carpenter, mason, boatman, shoemaker etc., is singing about the pride of their job, Whitman titled his poem as "I hear America singing" which also means the whole of America is singing with pride.
- Walt uses an established sense of optimism regarding workers and their work.
<span>The violence directed at noncombatants was the main focus of some of the early twentieth-century American writers, such as Elie Wiesel. There were serious effects on the people who we not in combat during wartime.</span>
