Victory and Despair: The Roaring Twenties, Modernism, and Postwar Outlooks — Test

Question 8 • English Language Arts 11

Which excerpt contains an example of irony?

Answer

Camellias drooped from thick bushes, their once-pristine white petals browning in the oppressive summer heat.

She had been raised to make a prestigious match, to secure her family's legacy. Instead, she found herself the last raggedy branch on her family's withered tree [. . .]

Through shattered windows, faded brocade curtains undulated lazily, beckoning whispers of the home's faded opulence. In the shadowed recesses of the drawing room, young Henley Beauregard sat primly in a tattered hoop skirt [. . .]

[. . .] soon to be consumed by the relentless Southern earth, her fortunes and delicate beauty devoured without preamble.

Explanation

Irony is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens. In B, she was raised to make a prestigious marriage and preserve her family’s legacy, but instead she becomes the “last raggedy branch” of a declining family. The other excerpts mainly describe decay and hardship without that same clear reversal of expectation.

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