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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by freak explosions and no that's not

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what you sometimes which would happen to your weird little

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brother Sorry okay read the following passage as ron celebrated

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his harder and investment compromise freeing exploding on the street

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during many moving parts and put it in who ross

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let's help him out and answer this question explain that

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dramatic irony in the passage and here are potential answers

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are looking for dramatic irony kind of all right so

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when we're talking about dramatic irony we're talking about a

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situation in which we know something that a character in

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a story doesn't know I know the right answer is

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going to be one where ross doesn't know quite as

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much as we do but hey we're from up Yeah

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we know almost everything the air speed velocity of an

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swallow holy grail Yep check it out if you don't

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know it Well we've got a few options here so

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let's see which one best captures the dramatic irony in

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the passage starting with a but the idea that ross

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didn't work hard for the mind isn't actually anywhere in

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the text so this barely captures whats going on in

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the passage bunch last dramatic irony Maybe this suggestion was

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written by someone who wants to defame ross and give

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him a nasty reputation as a lazy guy That's not

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what we're looking for here though is gone What about

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c while it's true that ross could have been in

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the mine when it collapsed That's just something that's possible

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Something ross is very glad didn't happen but it doesn't

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have anything to do with us knowing something Ross doesn't

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Soc is out how'bout deep Well like in a the

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idea that ross will be poor for the rest of

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his life isn't actually anywhere in the text It's entirely

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possible that ross had luck might turn around and he

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might get drenched into cia money So he is at

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leaves us with b now we're talking while celebrating Ross

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thinks that everything is just hunky dorey att the mind

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But we the readers know that his investment has been

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blown to pieces literally So be is our answer We

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wish ross all the best in his future business endeavors

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Maybe he should look into selling that beanie baby collection 00:02:01.15 --> [endTime] here is worth a fortune

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