Which sentence in this excerpt from herman melville's "bartleby, the scrivener" best exhibits the use of verbal irony?

a. before, i had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness.

b. 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.

c. so he sent him to my office, as student at law, errand boy, cleaner and sweeper, at the rate of one dollar a week.

d. for the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me.

50 ! your poem must include the following: ● poetic form: lines and stanzas (not paragraphs! ) o your poem needs to be at least 10 lines long. ● sensory details/strong imagery o “paint a picture” and/or create an emotion with your words, word choice is key in poetry ● figurative language o include at least one of the following: metaphor, simile, and/or personification (click here for more info. on these) ● sound devices o include at least one of the following: repetition, rhyme, rhythm, meter, onomatopoeia, and/or alliteration (click here for more info. on these) ● labels o underneath your poem, include the words from the poem that represent the figurative language and sound devices and label them o examples: booming bombs - alliteration; like a firefly - simile you so