Which one of the following events is an example of situational irony?\nA. Bernice cuts her hair and suddenly realizes what a mistake it is \n\nB. Bernice overhears Marjorie talking with her mother \nC. Warren is disappointed that Bernice cuts her hair \nD. Marjorie teaches Bernice how to be more socially accepted.
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I say A. because Warren may be dissappointed but it turns out so is Bernice
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Irony is a beautiful thing, isn't it?
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1- Yes, B can be upset. it was rude and disrespectful of A\n2- A is being a jerk, especially if by fire you mean FIRE, a potentially life threatening situation that B went to help with.\nLesson: B should not be willing to do anything for A in future.
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Some parts didn't make much sense, but here it goes:\n\n"I'm' sorry I had to hang up today. My girlfriend was near and she is very jealous. I'm not enjoying this, I will send you the camera, all you have to do is wait a little bit, because I had a financial crisis. Did I tell you I'm coming back to  Florida? A (Kiss?)"\n\nP.S. I'm Portuguese.
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a bad hair day, maybe :)\n\nof course it would be taken with the context of the situation, instead of awe/KRAPP, it'd be more along the lines of awwwww/kraaaap.  but we know you don't HAVE days like that :)
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It's a shame the asker didn't include more of the surrounding text from this article so it could be analyzed more closely.  \n\nAnyhow, grammarians will concur that the structure:  \n\n"...active surveillance and robust peer intervention among high-risk groups such as female sex workers had had an impact in the South..." ,\n\nIS, technically, correct.  Sacramento Dweller was correct in identifying this seemingly awkward grammatical structure as a matter of tense.  Sentences utilizing this particular structure generally fall under the category of "Conditional Sentences."  Sentences featuring the 'had had' syntax are classified as "The Third Conditional," or "Conditional Type Three," and can generally be diagnosed by analyzing them for similarities with following structural formulae:\n\n(The Type 3 Conditional / Third Conditional Formula:)\n\n" IF + <insert past perfect tense verb> + <insert perfect conditional tense verb> = RESULT OF SUPPOSED CONDITIONS.*\n\n*~NOTE:  RESULT(S) of the supposed conditions usually resemble one of the following two structures, depending on when events occurred:  \n\n(1.) Result:  <insert simple present or past tense verb to express an obvious, or predictable fact / outcome>\n\n(2.) Result:  <insert modal verb  + simple present or past tense verb to express a known fact / outcome >\n\nEXAMPLE #1:  "If you had had proper training as an assassin, we would not be in this situation..."\n\nEXAMPLE #2:  "If I'd had proper training as an assassin, you probably wouldn't be here to complain."\n\n(Notice how in EXAMPLE #2, the contractions 'I'd' is used instead of saying, 'I had had' to illustrate the terms of the condition being discussed, though still allowing the reader to ascertain and understand the time-frame and sequence in which events occcurred?)\n\nRules for proper usage of the "Third Conditional / Conditional Type 3" sentence structure state that the structures are 'to be used when talking about unreal, or "hypothetical" situations occurring in the past.'  That means, the related events DID NOT 'ACTUALLY' HAPPEN in the past.  Sentences utilizing this structure are almost always phrased to reckon, "If circumstances were different, what could / would have this been like?"  \n\nThe expression of time / tense in this [third] variety of conditional sentence structure IS identified as the past, and indicates that an action was completed "in" the past.  The condition and / or result, therefore, cannot logically be fulfilled because the action in the "IF" clause never actually happened.  Action in "Third Conditional / Conditional Type 3" sentence structure is almost ALWAYS characterized by the quality of being absurd, and impossible to achieve.\n\nTense and Terminology?\n\n-Simple Present Tense:  Expresses a fact, habit/routine, or ability.\n\n-Simple Past:  Implies that the action happened before and is not happening anymore.\n\n-Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Tense:  Relates that an action or event ended prior to another action or event.\n\n-Present Perfect (Continuous) [Past-composite] Tense:  Indicates either events in recent past, or events which occurred in the past at an unknown time.\n\n-Perfect (Conditional) Tense: Relates varying degrees of certianty or uncertainty about events in recent past, or events which occurred in the past at an unknown time.\n\n-Modal Verbs:  incorporated with other verbs to illustrate the notion of possibility, impossability, necessity or other degree of probability.
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http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html
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"Go And Catch a Falling Star" - John Donne.\n\nIt is dominated by irony, not dominant in irony.
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“I hate you! It’s all your fault I’m here! I never want to see you again and you deserved everything you got!” Nancy cried, looking at Frank and begging, pleading with him silently  to understand that she didn’t mean it that she was sorry.\n\n  Frank wasn’t looking at her, he was looking a his hands, which were shaking. Nancy held back tears and turned and walked through the door in Frank’s room that connected it to hers. She threw herself down onto the bed and sobbed into the pillow. She’d never felt so bad in her entire life. \n\n  On the other side of the door that led from Frank’s room into the hallway, Mark smirked. Yes that had gone well. Perfectly, in fact! Frankie had bought it and now he was even more upset than Mark was. So far he had made Frank hate his parents with the manufactured tape. Joe, and by extension Nessa, Callie, and Nancy. He had isolated Frankie, and now when he went home...\n\nNot perfect, but more readable.  Easier to edit than to explain.
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Incident\nEvent\nOccurrence\nEpisode\nAccident\n\nIt depends on the context
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Never heard that one before, but I can present some scenarios...\n\n1) Person A does not get promotion that they believed they deserved. Person A is angry, and says... "I'm SO mad... Person B should not have gotten that job... that really BUTTERS MY MUFFIN!!!" (translation: I am so MAD!!!)\n\n2) Person A (different guy) gets flowers from his girlfriend (Peron B). He says: "Oh, I love her SO much... her thoughtfulness really BUTTERS MY MUFFIN!!!" (translation: I am so HAPPY!!!)\n\n3) Person A (different guy again) sees a very attractive woman in a bar (Person B). She is very sexy. Person A says, "Man, she's hot... I'd like to BUTTER HER MUFFIN." (translation: I would like to have se*x with her, enabling my ejaculate to provide lubrication to her southern genitalia)\n\n4) Opposite of scenario 3... A woman (Person A) looks at an attractive man (Person B) and says.... : "He is so hot. He can BUTTER MY MUFFIN anytime." (translation: See scenario 3)\n\nBest Wishes!
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Marissa was given an offer by her father to work on a yacht with him for the next year. After not a lot of thinking but a lot of tearful goodbyes especially to Summer and Julie, she decides to take it. Ryan asks to drive her to the airport because she was the first person she met here and he'd like to be the last one to say goodbye. Marissa says she was going to ask him to do that anyway. Moving on, Volcheck kept trying to talk to Marissa but she wasn't letting him. He demanded from Ryan money to start over somewhere and Marissa gave Ryan the pearl necklace Julie had given her to pawn for cash. Moving onto the last three minutes, we see Ryan in his used card that his mother gave him as a graduation gift driving Marissa when Volcheck comes from behind, rams his car twice, and then tries shoving his car to the side of the road with his bigger car. He says he's trying to get them to pull over but he's drunk. The car goes off the side of the road, flips a few times, and finally stops, leaking gasoline and fire. Ryan gets out and drags Marissa out just before the car bursts into flames. Marissa asks Ryan to stay with her when she dies and that's all she wrote for Marissa Cooper!
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A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.  \n\n\nIf a priest is called a white collar worker, then a nun would be a creature of habit.\n\n\nThe riot at Macy's was called a shopping maul.\n\n\nUsing deodorant is no sweat.\n\n\nI wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.  \n\n \nPolice were called to a daycare where a two-year-old was resisting a rest.   \n\n\nDid you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.   \n\n\nHe drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.   \n\n\nWhat did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing - but it let out a little whine.
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shakespearean allusion is common in the text (look at the title: “Oh brave new world that has such people in it...” from The Tempest), also utopian irony ... try that for starters
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When a friends young daughter broke her leg, the social worker asked her "when was the last time she was here?"\n\nBy the way, it was for her birth
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The "irony" in all this is, we all KNEW you were being "ironic", so, you got more "irony" in return, so who's the "ignorant one"? (And by the way, there's a "black fly in your chardonney"... and it's like, "10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife"...  don't ya think???)\n\nBy the way, I have an I.Q. of "143".\n\n(Man- I love messin' with people's minds!)\n\n(Tera time4u420@yahoo)
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The target gender, along with the responding gender, affected attitudes about...\n\nYou need to specify what attitudes were affected and how.  Then the sentence will make sense.\n\nHope this helps.  Cheers, K