Answer: The excerpt from “Rip Van Winkle” that best shows that Washington Irving finds humor in the Van Winkles’ relationship is - “A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed.” Therefore option D is the correct response.
Step-by-step explanation: Who is Washington Irving?
Washington Irving was an early 19th-century American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat. Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, both of which may be found in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, are his two best-known short stories.
Despite drawing inspiration from European authors, particularly German mythology and tales, he developed a distinctively American accent that was both lofty and sarcastic. He made use of pictures to give his readers a sense of the Hudson Valley's scenery.
When Irving was 19 years old, he started writing as a journalist under the alias Jonathan Oldstyle. He covered Aaron Burr's treason trial as a reporter for his brother Peter's newspaper The Morning Chronicle. From 1804 to 1806, Irving had a "great tour" of Europe, which his family funded him.