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 veterans' efforts were: B. acknowledged.
<h3>What is an acknowledgment?</h3>
An acknowledgment is a recognition of the efforts of a person or organization. Given the content of the passage above, we can conclude that the efforts of the veterans were acknowledged.
The acknowledgment can be seen from the ceremony organized by the government to recognize their efforts.
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In Village Life in America and A Confederate Girl's Diary, both young girls are going through a time of war. They both have times where they are afraid, and they both want the war to end as soon as possible.
This is just the similarity because It's been a while since I read them. good luck!
I believe it would be the third one "the best time to fish is just before the sun rises"
The figure of speech used in the sentence above is PERSONIFICATION.
Personification is a figure of speech which attributes personal nature or human characteristics to an inanimate objects. In the sentence given above, the author wrote that 'the wind whispers and the stream giggles. These are actions that only human beings can carry out, but the author is given the attributes to wind and stream, which are inanimate objects.
