Which situation best shows irony? a. a surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery. b. a surgeon usually has six surgeries in a single day, but today he only had five. c. a surgeon cracks jokes to his assistants while performing a hip replacement. d. a surgeon performs a procedure with another surgeon who is much older than he is.

The correct answer is A. A surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery.

Explanation:

The irony is a rhetorical device used for humor in which an incongruence between expectations and reality is presented or incongruence between the words said and their meaning. Because of this irony is often classified into situational irony which refers to a difference between expectation and reality; the verbal irony that occurs when the words said mean the opposite and dramatic irony that occurs in literature when the audience knows something other characters do not. This implies, from the options presented the situation that show irony (situational irony) is "A surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery" because it is not expected a surgeon needs a surgery after he/she has been doing surgeries which implies an incongruence or difference between what is expected and what really happens or an ironic situation.

lennie

is very stupid, big and strong and sweet, he loves soft things

george

is smart reosponible and watches over lennie

candy

candy is an old ranch worker who has lost one of his hands in a farm accident. he's spent the best years of his life working on someone else's ranch, only to lose his hand and have little money.

curly

is the ranch owners son he is said to have vasilene in one glove to keep that hand soft for his wife

crooks

crooks. crooks is a lively, sharp-witted, black stable-hand, who takes his name from his crooked back. like most of the characters in the story, he admits that he is extremely lonely. when lennie visits him in his room, his reaction reveals this fact.

curlys wife

is lonly and seems to flirt with most of the men on the farm she does not like her hunband much.

1. the human rights issue in the novel is equlity the men in the story are poor and curly is mean to all of them as if they are just dirt

2. the first issue comes up when lennie kills the mouse

3. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

4. the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.

5. lennie suffers because of his death he will never be able to tend the rabbits.

6. the wording in the qoutations imply what is happening in the story

7. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

8.   the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.