As Lucia left home on her birthday, a bus splashed her with mud and ruined her new sweater. “Happy birthday to me,” she muttered. What figure of speech is shown in the paragraph? personification pun verbal

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As Lucia left home on her birthday, a bus splashed her with mud and ruined her new sweater. “Happy birthday to me,” she muttered.

What figure of speech is shown in the paragraph?

personification

pun

verbal irony

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English
high-school

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Verbal irony. She is saying the opposite of what she means.

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Olof Larsson answered May 22, 2022

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