Which situation best shows irony? a. a surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery. b. a surgeon usually has six surgeries in a single day, but today he only had five. c. a surgeon cracks jokes to his assistants while performing a hip replacement. d. a surgeon performs a procedure with another surgeon who is much older than he is.

The correct answer is A. A surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery.

Explanation:

The irony is a rhetorical device used for humor in which an incongruence between expectations and reality is presented or incongruence between the words said and their meaning. Because of this irony is often classified into situational irony which refers to a difference between expectation and reality; the verbal irony that occurs when the words said mean the opposite and dramatic irony that occurs in literature when the audience knows something other characters do not. This implies, from the options presented the situation that show irony (situational irony) is "A surgeon works so hard one day that he gets a hernia and needs surgery" because it is not expected a surgeon needs a surgery after he/she has been doing surgeries which implies an incongruence or difference between what is expected and what really happens or an ironic situation.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

uncanny would be like unlucky or disaster. you can look for more in the dictionary or if you have text book then turn to a. 17 but it's different with textbooks.