Read the excerpt below and answer the following question. we have been here two weeks, and i haven't felt like writing before, since that first day. i am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as i , save lack of strength. john is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. i am glad my case is not serious! this excerpt gives an example of which of the following? a) allegory b) hyperbole c) irony d) satire