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Gandhi and King were both advocates of nonviolence, yet both were assassinated. This is an example of

A. allusion.
B. irony.
C. hyperbole.
D. oxymoron.

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This is an example of B. Irony.

It is an ironic situation that people who are against violence die in a violent way, and this is exactly what happened to these two men.
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