Question

Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller."

Answer 1

I Think The answer is d

Answer 2

Answer:

C.) “The children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage.”

E.) “In a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good.”

Explanation:

These are the two options that provide examples of situational irony. We learn that the girl only knows a single line of verse, which she repeats a couple thousand times. We can imagine this is not amusing or appreciated. Therefore, the aunt interrupts and promises a story. Although the reader expects this entertainment to be better than the one the girl provided, the irony is that the children do not want to listen to it, and that the aunt's story is just as boring.