Question 15 of 25 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 A Credit Recovery 5 Credits
Which of the following quotations by Huck’s father in chapter 5 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an example of irony?
Answer
A
"Starchy clothes—very. You think you're a good deal of a big-bug, DON'Tyou?"
B
“You're educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can’t?”
C
“And looky here—you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what HE is.”
D
"All right. I'll ask him; and I'll make him pungle, too, or I'll know the reason why.