Anyone what literary device is this an example of? lane presents several letters on a salver to algernon. it is to be surmised that they are bills, as algernon, after looking at the envelopes, tears them up.] stage directions irony hyperbole satire the following occurs in act 1: jack: of course it’s mine. [moving to him.] you have seen me with it a hundred times, and you have no right whatsoever to read what is written inside. it is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. what literary device is this an example of? stage directions irony hyperbole satire