Which of the following is ironic? A. Chris McCandless came from a moderately wealthy home but chose to have minimal belongings.

B. There were a pair of privately owned cabins stocked with food about four miles away from
the bus where Chris died of starvation.

C. The harsh nature of Alaska has been known to take the lives of stronger and better-prepared people than McCandless.

D. McCandless leaves his map on the dashboard of Gallien's truck but meant to take it with
him.

E. The weather in Alaska was unseasonably rainy and cold during the months Chris stayed
there.

Gatsby comment that nick looks familiar to him. what surprising connection do they have?

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky