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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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verbal irony
item category
personification
pun
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Verbal irony — she says “Happy birthday to me” but means the opposite (sarcastically lamenting the ruined sweater).
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