英美文学选读历年客观题1.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies ofthe system,that during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.”What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist? The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just the opposite of the sentences literal meaning. For the “benefit”
