Which sentence describes an example of situational irony in gulliver's travels?

A) gulliver cannot eat the rotting meat that the yahoos eat, so he worries that he will not be able to sustain himself among the houyhnhnms.

B) gulliver expects the humans in the land of the houyhnhnms to be very wise, but they are the most brutal and disgusting beasts imaginable.

C) gulliver wears clothing to make himself look different from the disgusting yahoos, because the houyhnhnms have no knowledge of clothing.

D) gulliver imitates the sounds the houyhnhnms make and only later learns the meanings of the words he is producing.

B. gulliver expects the humans in the land of the houyhnhnms to be very wise, but they are the most brutal and disgusting beasts imaginable.

Explanation:

The term irony itself refers to an event that is the opposite to what one expects. A situational irony in literature occurs when what happens is the contrary to what the characters or the audience are expecting to happen. If we think of Gulliver's Travels, we can see a situational irony when gulliver expects the humans in the land of the houyhnhnms to be very wise, but they are the most brutal and disgusting beasts imaginable. What occurs is the contrary to what the character and the audience expect.

B) gulliver expects the humans in the land of the houyhnhnms to be very wise, but they are the most brutal and disgusting beasts imaginable.

Explanation:

situational irony is when you expect one thing to happen, when the exact opposite or something else happens instead.