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No Okay Let's just get to it in line twenty

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seven The adjective inexpressible right there That's flying twenty seven

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is used How That's fine Here in line twenty seven

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I freely own myself to have been struck with inexpressible

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delight upon hearing this count together Okay Well let's think

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about this the author says His delight is inexpressible but

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somehow he's able to express it right He breaks out

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into expressions that are a little too extravagance e right

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there meaning that his delight is in fact express a

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ble So by using inexpressible signify the opposite of its

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meaning The author is using irony So the answer here

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is B and the Loser bowl Well it's true that

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the adjective is metaphorical in the sense that it's not

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literal So yeah metaphorical not the right answer Here however

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as the narrator says later he does express his delight

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His delight ends up being a little too extravagant meaning

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that inexpressible was used to mean the opposite of its

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usual meetings So you gotta pay attention for the subtleties

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Therefore metaphoric isn't strong enough to describe the narrator's intentions

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Likewise they didn't use the word incorrectly so get rid

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of See the irony highlights how delighted he actually Waas

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so inexpressible describes his enthusiasm But it isn't used enthusiastically

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as Indy Nor is his delight regretful de So get

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rid of it So yeah that's it Ironically the answer

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is B is in

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