Nice shot! i always dreamed i'd lose the championship by a missed free throw.
what is the verbal irony in this statement?

1. the speaker feels that getting to the championship is as good as winning.

2. the speaker didn't want to win the championship but feels the last shot was a good try.

3. the speaker has always dreamed of winning a basketball championship.

4. the speaker is frustrated by the loss and does not believe the last shot was a good one.

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. david sedaris's essay "our perfect summer" appeared in the june 16, 2003, issue of the new yorker. match each element of sedaris's essay to an element of a narrative essay. tiles time setting plot geographical setting conflict characters pairs the writer and his mother had always talked about the family buying a second home like the rich people they knew. the writer grew up in raleigh, north carolina, and his emerald isle in the summers.

I'll mark what are some examples of metaphors in the song "lose yourself" by eminem?

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.