Answer: Verbal irony is when a speaker says something when he or she means another thing. It is mistakenly known as sarcasm. Sarcasm, however, connotes a little bit of a mean twist or a derogatory statement.
Explanation: Verbal irony can be for example when after a hard day at work in which everything went wrong you say: What a great day¡
The similarity between a story and a free verse poem is that they both don't need anything to rhyme in it. Both of them don't consist of meter or musical patterns.
<span>The sentence which does not contain any errors in comma usage is:
A. He can juggle several tennis balls, but he doesn't like tennis.
In this sentence, comma is used to denote a brief pause at the same time separates the dependent and independent clauses for emphasis.</span>
Answer:
An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review).
During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.
Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.
Answer:new york?
Explanation:
One of the reasons that Gatsby has become so famous around New York is that he throws elaborate parties every weekend at his mansion, lavish spectacles to which people long to be invited. One day, Gatsby’s chauffeur brings Nick an invitation to one of these parties. At the appointed time, Nick makes the short walk to Gatsby’s house and joins the festivities, feeling somewhat out of place amid the throng of jubilant strangers. Guests mill around exchanging rumors about their host—no one seems to know the truth about Gatsby’s wealth or personal history. Nick runs into Jordan Baker, whose friend, Lucille, speculates that Gatsby was a German spy during the war. Nick also hears that Gatsby is a graduate of Oxford and that he once killed a man in cold blood.
