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This is the use of words to convey the opposite of the actual meaning, it arises from an awareness of contrast between what is and what ought to be.

A. Malapropism
B. Idioms
C. Irony

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the answer is C. irony

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C. Irony is the use of words to convey the opposite of the actual meaning. It arises from an awareness of contrast between what is and what ought to be.
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