"Isn't life just perfect?" said Tom as he stood in the rain with a flat tire. This sentence contains: (1 point)
Responses
Only situational irony
Only situational irony
Only verbal irony
Only verbal irony
Both verbal irony and rhetorical questioning
Both verbal irony and rhetorical questioning
Neither irony nor rhetorical questioning
1 answer
The correct response is: Both verbal irony and rhetorical questioning.
Tom's statement, "Isn't life just perfect?" in the context of standing in the rain with a flat tire is an example of verbal irony because he is saying the opposite of what he really means, and it's framed as a rhetorical question.
