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Hope Valdez

25 May, 10:25

What stylistic element is responsible for the comic effect of this line from a novel?

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.

(from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark wain)

A. personification

B. diction

C. syntax

D. metaphor

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