The right answer is IRONY (C). As a literary device, irony is a contrast or absurdity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. It can also be a difference between what can be expected to happen and what occurs. In this excerpt we can notice the use of irony because it says Shelby is a weather forecaster and it the very day she left, weather became rough, meanig it is ironic how the the first event conditionated the following.