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What stylistic element is responsible for the comic effect of this line from a novel?

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
(from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark wain)
A. personification
B. diction
C. syntax
D. metaphor

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Metaphor is responsible for the comic effect of this line from novel
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