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 please, 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?
A) allegory
B) hyperbole
C) irony
D) satire

Answer 1

The excerpt gives an example of the following:

C) irony.

Step-by-step explanation:

After describing a whole lot of problems concerning creative block, which clearly affect the speaker (we can tell by the way those problems are described), the excerpt ends with: "I am glad my case is not serious!". That is pure irony, which is a rhetorical device used when one says something in a way that shows what was actually meant to be said was the exact opposite.