From "The Black Sheep"

Question

The statement below is an example of what literary device?

“The government was a criminal organization that stole from its subjects, and the subjects for their part were only interested in defrauding the government. Thus life went on smoothly, nobody was rich and nobody was poor.”
(1 point)
Responses

metaphor
metaphor

allusion
allusion

satire
satire

irony

Answer 1

irony