From the novel; Great Expectation
This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.’In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch’. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are
- understatement and hyperbole
- irony and metaphor
- simile and personification
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irony and understatement
