Read the passage. Melissa is decorating a pair of jeans in art class. She decides to use all the craft supplies to decorate it.
She adds glitter, sequins, beads, and rhinestones. When Melissa has finished, she is disappointed because the clothing looks messy. “Sometimes, less is more,” she sighs. Which literary device is the author using? irony paradox hyperbole allegory
The author here is using the literaty device irony, since the outcome of decorating would be assumed to ave a great reaction, yet Melissa was dissapointed
Irony is a literary device that happens when there is an incongruence between what is said or what is meant, or between what happens and what was expected to happen. The author is using this literary device because the outcome of the story (the messy look of the clothing) is the opposite to what Melissa expected: some pair of jeans well decorated, improved.
