Question

7. Select the sentence from Passage 1 that points out the irony found in the beginning.

A "There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child." (paragraph 1)

® "This desire increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it. she quite pined away, and looked pale and miserable." (paragraph 2)

C "Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost you what it will." (paragraph 4)

"She, however, liked it so much, so very much, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before." (paragraph 4)​

Answer 1

A "There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child." (paragraph 1)

Step-by-step explanation:

Hello. You did not present the text to which the question refers, which makes it impossible for it to be answered. However, according to the context of the response options, we can consider that option A is the one that presents irony most prominently and therefore, it should be considered the correct answer.

Generally speaking, irony is the literary artifice that allows a contradictory statement to be different from what is desired. An example of this can be seen in option A, where we can see that a couple tries to have a child, they know that this effort is in vain, but they refuse to stop trying.