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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?

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item category
item category

pun
pun

personification
personification

verbal irony
verbal irony
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Verbal irony.

She says "Happy birthday to me" after something bad happens, meaning the opposite of the literal words.