How is the lottery ironic in the story?
a. usually a lottery winner is considered lucky, but the lottery winner in this story is put to death.
b. the lottery winners in this story are considered lucky because they get to harvest corn, but they are already farmers.
c. mrs. dunbar fills in for her husband at the lottery since he broke his leg and their son horace is too young to draw.
d. old man warner has been in the lottery seventy-seven times, but has yet to be the winner.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

Who gets bob ewell to stop his bothering?

In a midsummer night dream, the mention of is an allusion to earlier english poetry