During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion by offending against
a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of
the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran). This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text:
for the words are these: "that all true believers break their eggs at the convenient end."
A understatement
B. verbal irony
C hyperbole
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