5. As the holiday season ended, Bertha Berger struggled to put on her blue jeans. They seemed much tighter than usual, so she stepped on the bathroom scale and received the bad news.
She had never seen such a high number on the little scale, so she resolved to change. That day
she threw out all the junk food in her fridge and went grocery shopping. Determined to lose
weight, she bought low-fat versions of all her favorite foods. She had a low-sodium bacon
sandwich with a diet soda for lunch. The sandwich contained over 1,200 calories but had very
little salt. For dinner she ate two turkey burgers with reduced-fat cheese. Though she had
consumed over 2,000 calories, Bertha felt like she deserved a reward. So for dessert she ate
two low-calorie ice-cream sandwiches. And before bed she ate a bag of baked potato chips,
which are healthier than normal chips. She dipped them in low-fat cream cheese. Bertha had
consumed around 6,500 calories that day, but she felt skinny. When she woke up the next
morning, she stepped on the scale. She couldn't wait to see how successful her diet had been.
Which type of irony is used?
State the reason for your response.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

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