This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
‘I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle’s elocution-not for old association’s sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything’.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle’s speech is expressed in this passage through
- a metaphor
- an irony
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a hyperbole
- a flashback