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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

pun

personification

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verbal irony

She says “Happy birthday to me” to mean the opposite (sardonically commenting on her bad luck), which is verbal irony rather than a pun or personification.