Question

Which of the following events in the story “Two Friends” is the best example of irony?

Two men who had been fishing end up dead in a river.


Two friends die rather than betray their country.


Two starving Frenchmen decide to go fishing.


Two men are captured behind enemy lines during a war.

Answer 1

The answer is A.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Two men who had been fishing end up dead in a river.

Step-by-step explanation:

Irony is a situation that evolves in a way that is unexpected, contradictory, and even amusing.

In the correct answer, we have an ironic situation, because it is always unexpected for fishermen to end up dead in a river, since fishermen are thought to be good at dealing with water enviroments, not to die because of them.