Alex is taking a creative writing class. In class, he learned that some writers make surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions in their work. Which literary device did he learn about? allegory irony understatement symbolism

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Answer 1

Answer: He learned about irony.

An example of such an amusing contradiction would be if in a school that teaches people how to fix elevators, the elevators were broken, or something similar.

Answer 2

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Answer:

Irony

Explanation:

In literature, Irony is a figure of speech that expresses an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events, and the expected or traditional result of the events; it also refers to the incongruity between the literal meaning of what we say and the real meaning of our words. Thus, what Alex learned is this type of contradiction called "Irony".

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The answer is D.the pitch,rate,tone and volume of a person s voice

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d is your answer

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A.
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B.
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C.
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D.
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I'm going to say first-person point of view

reason:

the narrator is a character in the story.

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your other options explained:

third person narrator, the narrator is not involved in the story or is not a main character

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Hopefully this helped and good luck

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I am pretty sure it's first POV,

When in 3rd or second it usually tells someone else's, but the narrator explains the story himself and if he is in the story then it's their perspective

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