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. Read the passage. The morning dawned dark and gloomy, then rain began to pour. This was the one day out of the year that Shelby, a weather forecaster, had taken off work to go camping. Which literary device did the author use in the passage? A. allegory B. understatement C. paradox D. irony

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It is paradox since it is contradictory.
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i think its irony because shes a weather forecaster and the one day she takes off the weather is bad 
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