Which scenario is an example of sarcasm? a. when carla demands waffles for dinner, her mother reminds her, "waffles are a breakfast food! " b. thomas tells his younger brother, "i wish you weren't always such a chicken! " c. the teacher looks at his senior class on the last day of school and says, "remember this: life is one long scary roller-coaster ride." d. when lisa turns in her one-paragraph research paper to her teacher, the teacher says, "wow lisa, i bet this took you a month to write! "

D.When Lisa turns in her one-paragraph research paper to her teacher, the teacher says, "Wow Lisa, I bet this took you a month to write!"

Explanation:

Sarcasm is when a person says the opposite of what they really mean. Lisa's research paper is only one-paragraph long. A research paper is usually much longer especially since there should be a Works Cited page attached. The teacher is using sarcasm here because he knows that Lisa did not take a month to write the paragraph and wants to emphasize the lack of effort Lisa obviously put into the paper.

learning how to embrace the effects of colonialism is one of the central ideas of the play.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .