Question

In this passage, Dickens labels a government department "the Circumlocution Office." What other technique does Dickens use to satirize this department?
1.Verbal irony
2.Understatement
3.Paradox
4.Parody

Answer 1

Dickens' humor permeates the very structure of his novels. Almost every person or event gets Dickens comic touch, and how much he will be allocated, depending on the nature of the phenomenon, from the role that plays one or another character in the overall structure of the narrative.

The comic element of the works of Charles Dickens uses the full range of shades, ranging from subtle irony and ending with caustic sarcasm, but in most cases Dickens  used irony.