“’ Ow long are you up for, Bill?’” “Seven Years.” “Yer lucky—I’m duration.”   The above is an example of:单项选择题

A

a. wartime poetry

B

d. an ad to entice young men into signing up for the military

C

b. dark humor

D

c. the irony of proximity

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