After waking, Ahmed looked out the window at the snow that had fallen overnight. It
was the first snow of the year, and it was piled two feet high on the driveway. Glancing
at the clock, Ahmed noted that he needed to be at work in an hour. His wife Maria
walked into the room and asked, "Did we get any snow?" Ahmed said, "Yeah, we got a
dusting. And I can't wait to shovel it."
Which rhetorical device does Ahmed use in his response to his wife?
a. analogy
c. irony
b. antithesis