Sarcasm is the rhetorical device In rhetoric, a rhetorical deviceation or resource of language is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading the reader or listener towards considering a topic from a different perspective. While a rhetorical device may be used to evoke an emotional response in the audience of using a characterization of something or someone in order to express contempt.[1] It is closely connected with irony Irony is a situation, literary technique or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance or unintended connection that goes beyond the most evident meaning. It is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, in that the two are often combined in the same statement.
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