Question

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Answer 1

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville (excerpt) Ginger Nut, the third on my list, was a lad some twelve years old. His father was a carman, ambitious of seeing his son on the bench instead of a cart before he died. So he sent him to my office, as student at law, errand boy, cleaner and sweeper, at the rate of one dollar a week. He had a little desk to himself, but he did not use it much. Upon inspection, the drawer exhibited a great array of the shells of various sorts of nuts. Indeed, to this quick-witted youth, the whole noble science of the law was contained in a nutshell. . . . For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom.

Answer 2

Which sentence in this excerpt from Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" best exhibits the use of verbal irony?
Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness.
Upon inspection, the drawer exhibited a great array of the shells of various sorts of nuts. Indeed, to this quick-witted youth, the whole noble science of the law was contained in a nutshell.
So he sent him to my office, as student at law, errand boy, cleaner and sweeper, at the rate of one dollar a week.
For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me.

Answer 3

I'm going to have to say the first choice. It says, "not unpleasing sadness". So I'm going to say this is verbal irony since you would expect sadness to be unpleasing.

Answer 4

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