‘My room was the smallest space I’D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome….’
The last statement in this passage is an example of
- understatement
- overstatement
- hyperbole
-
sarcastic humour
- poetic diction