In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
to show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level
and that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded
and that even the nobles get properly handled
once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em
and that ladder of law has no top and no bottom
stared at the person who killed for no reason
who just happened to be feelin' that way without warnin'
and he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished
and handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance
william zanzinger with a six-month sentence.

the underlined words in this excerpt from dylan's "the lonesome death of hattie carroll" are an example of hyperbole to exaggerate the judge's orders synecdoche to represent the nation's entire legal system sarcasm to emphasize the absurdity of zanzinger's sentence understatement to suggest that the situation was not as bad as it seemed

This excerpt comes from the song “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol” written by Bob Dylan. He wrote this song to give a factual account of the senseless killing of a black barmaid Hattie Carol by the  young , rich white boy William “Billy” Zantzinger. He only got a 6 months sentence for this. This is being ridiculed by Bob Dylan in the song.

Question: The underlined words in this excerpt from Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" are an example of .

C. sarcasm to emphasize the absurdity of Zantzinger's sentence

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.