Which of the following is an example of situational irony?
a. a popular band goes on tour, selling out each performance before you can buy a ticket.
b. a man plans a july picnic in the mojave desert, but it is spoiled by rain.
c. the shyest person in class is too nervous to give a speech in front of the school. d. a boston school district cancels classes because of a snowstorm in mid-january.

The correct answer is B.

Explanation:

The situational irony is an instrumental tool or device that is commonly used in the literature to put a twist in the plot so that incongruties appears when the story is heading somewhere and by the end tends to turn its direction of events. Therefore that the correct answer is ''B'', because the man that planned the picnic thinks that it won't rain, as it is a dessert where commonly never rains, and at the end it rains, giving place to a twist that the man did not expect.

“i think it is very plausible that if there are five votes to end the death penalty, it could be with the people who are on the court right now,” - smith

so basically it is not clearly and consistently imposed