Which two scenarios best exemplify situational irony? 1) In Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace," Madame Loisel spends her entire life in poverty, trying to repay the money for a diamond necklace that she lost, only to find out in the end that the necklace was fake.

2) In Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Casque of Amontillado." Fortunato says in the catacombs that he will not die of a cough, and Montresor replies, 'True, true." A little while later, Montresor kils Fortunato.

3) In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony makes a speech against Brutus to the crowd to show them that Brutus is responsible for Caesar's death. During the speech he keeps repeating, "Brutus is an honorable man."

4) In the ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, Oedipus's parents decide to kill him at birth in an attempt to stop the fulfillment of a prophecy. According to the prophecy, Oedipus will grow up and kill his father. Oedipus survives and grows up with another family. However, through a tragic turn of events, Oedipus ends up killing a man that he does not know is his father.

5) In Shakespeare's play Othello, lago acts as a mastermind and provides false proof of Desdemona's unfaithfulness to Othello. Othello only trusts lago and ends up killing Desdemona. It is only after he commits this misdeed that he finds out the truth.

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen