Section: Reasoning Through Language Arts A

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The alarm, traditionally sounded to avert danger, became the apparent cause of the avalanche is an example of

1. irony
2. simile
3. satire
4. personification
5. exaggeration

Irony refers to a combination of circumstances that results in the opposite of what might be expected to happen. Thai is true of this selection: the alarm, which should summon help, brings thc opposite—destruction.