Which one of the following sentences contains a collective noun?
a. who among you is a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker?
b. the quality of mercy is not strained.
c. listen, my children, and you shall hear.
d. the legislature met in secret session.

A collective noun is a kind of noun that denotes a collection of things or a group of individuals. The sentence that contains a collective noun is: The legislature met in secret session. The correct answer is option d. The collective noun in this sentence is the word "legislature". Legislature refers to the group who make laws.

Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead.Situational irony generally includes sharp contrasts and contradictions.

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