Sarcasm: (from the Greek, "to tear the flesh") Sarcasm involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. It may use irony as a device, but not all ironic statements are sarcastic, that it, intending to ridicule. When well done, sarcasm can be witty and insightful; when poorly done, it is simply cruel.
"wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?"(The Bible, Exodus 14:11)
This quote has sarcasm, they tell the king have they run out of graves, and is that the reason that they are taken to the wilderness to die. He says it in a way that is supposed to make the other person feel some type of way.
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