Mr. palmer made her no answer, and did not even raise his eyes from the newspaper. "mr. palmer does not hear me," said she, laughing; "he never does sometimes. it is so ridiculous! " this was quite a new idea to mrs. dashwood; she had never been used to find wit in the inattention of any ” (sense and sensibility, chapter 19) which literary technique is austen using in mrs. dashwood's reference to “wit” in this excerpt?
a. peripeteia
b. dramatic irony
c. verbal irony
d. situational irony

our founding fathers introduced the revolutionary idea that each person's desire to pursue their idea of happiness was not self-indulgence, but a necessary driver of a prosperous society. they created a government to defend that right for everyone.

the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.