From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds. The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of
A. hyperbole B. understatement C. sarcasm D. synecdoche.
