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Read the sentence below and answer the following question:

I just love raking the yard in the fall. I especially love the painful blisters and the aching back I get when I'm raking.

Which word from this text is meant sarcastically?

Love(Right?
Especially
Painful
Aching

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Love is more sarcastic
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In the sentence " I just love raking the yard in the fall. I especially love the painful blisters and the aching back I get when I'm raking," the sarcastic word is LOVE. Option A is correct.

In this sentence "love" is sarcastic because the speaker actually refers to the contrary. He does not love to neither to rake nor the aching back he suffers when raking.

Sarcasm can be defined as the use of remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what they say, made in order to hurt someone's feelings or to criticize something in a humorous way.

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