Alex is taking a creative writing class. in class, he learned that some writers make surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions in their work
which literary device did he learn about?
allegory
irony
understatement
symbolism

a revolutionary war veteran

president thomas jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the louisiana purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an american presence in this territory before britain and other european powers