Which phrase in this excerpt from kurt vonnegut's "report on the barnhouse effect" is an example of sarcasm?
1)the blessings of another world war.
2)his mother lived to be fifty-three, his father to be forty-nine
3), if he can remain hidden from his enemies.
4)typewritten on a soiled scrap of paper
5)bewildering tangle of psychological jargon

i will have to go with 1.

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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