Read the story.Sam was home one night when the lights went out during a thunderstorm. He was looking in the kitchen closet for a flashlight to help him see, but it was hard to find the flashlight in the dark without using a flashlight! His circumstances struck Sam as pretty funny.

Situational irony occurs when the outcome is unexpected or opposite to what someone would normally expect. Sam needs a flashlight to see in the dark, but he needs to see in order to find the flashlight. That amusing contradiction is situational irony, choice C.

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