<u>Answer</u>:
The statement which contains an ironic use of understatement is: The pilot called flying from one side of the Atlantic to the other a simple task of "puddle jumping." So, the right answer over here is Option D.
<u>Explanation</u>:
When an author or a writer wants to make a situation seem less important or significant than it truly is then he/she makes an understatement. This figure of speech offers an ironic effect to a statement and results in saying something opposite than what is expected. In this statement mentioned above, the Atlantic ocean is ironically described as a puddle but it actually means that the Atlantic ocean is gigantic.
Rulers are undermined by deforestation of wintering woods in Mexico, disturbances to their relocation brought about by environmental change, and the deficiency of local plants (counting milkweed species yet additionally all nectar-delivering local plants) along their transitory hallways.
<span><span>I would go for the second argument:
"Argue whether comedic devices work to develop the plot in The Taming of the Shrew." </span>
</span>Comedy is a literal genre and a dramatic work which is really <span>entertaining</span> and sarcastic<span>.Most of the times it has a happy ending.</span>
The Taming of the Shrew is a Romantic comedy and if there were no comedic devices in this story the Taming of the Shrew would just be another romantic story which was gone wrong and not entertaining.
Parallelism
“the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.”
You'll have to provide the choices.
