Part 2: Literary Devices in The Importance of Being Earnest Answers

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Which statement best explains the paradox in this line?

No one would agree that doing nothing is hard work, so the statement is clearly meant as a joke.

Algernon thinks that doing nothing is hard work, but he does not actually know what hard work is like.

Doing nothing seems like it should be quite easy, but sometimes it really can be difficult to do nothing.

Which description of the picture is an example of understatement?

Yasmin is the strongest reader in the class.

Yasmin borrowed eleven books from the library.

Yasmin doesn’t completely hate reading.

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