Read the stanzas from "The Battle of Blenheim" by Robert Southey. “With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother then,
And new-born baby died;
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.

“They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won;
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory."

Which technique does the poet use when the old man repeatedly refers to the battle as a "famous victory"?

A. exaggeration

B. verbal irony

C. metaphor

D. pun