In "the fun they had . " tommy finds a book. The book's pages are yellow and crinkly because it was an old book which excited nearly a 100 years ago when the books were printed in spite of being saved and shown in the television screen that tommy and Margie had.
Romeo and juliet act 1, scene 5, page 4 :)
Irony is like sarcasm: you can say "oh yeah, that sounds SO fun" and mean "that doesn't sound fun at all"
Irony in a situation is when, for example, you do everything you can to prevent something from happening, but your trying to prevent it is what makes it happen.
It is also a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
Assuming that you're talking about racing the storm tv show,
the author create suspense through pacing by jumping through a car chase scene, without explaining any background about how and why it happen, which directly created suspense in the first minute of the show
No, it is false that all adult men in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who were members of the church were given the right to vote, since only eligible citizens could. This usually meant you had to be educated and own land.