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. understatement

b. paradox

c. irony

d. allegory

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Sadie Floyd

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15 January, 10:33

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. understatement

b. paradox

c. irony

d. allegory

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Guadalupe Cooley · Answer 1

The literary device the author used in the passage is c) irony.

It is quite ironic that the weather forecaster, who is supposed to know about the weather, chose just one day in the year to go camping, and it started raining.

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. understatementb. paradoxc. ironyd. allegory

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. understatement

b. paradox

c. irony

d. allegory