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read the excerpt below and answer the question.
we have been here two weeks, and i haven't felt like writing before, since that first day.
i am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much
as i , save lack of strength.
john is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious.
i am glad my case is not serious!
this excerpt gives an example of which of the following?
allegory
hyperbole
irony