World picture and its types

the use of many stylistic devices aimed to achieve an ironical effect: irony, zeugma, pun;

I tell you, she's a beauty that would take the hydrogen out of all the peroxides in the world (O’Henry, No Story)

Here, the word “beauty” is used ironically, because it implies not real but artificial, unnatural beauty. The word peroxides serves here as a context to understand the ironical sense of the word “beauty”.

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  description of humorous, ridiculous situations
  

I want you to consider Jacob Spraggins, Esq., after he had arrived at the seventh stage of his career. The stages meant are, first — humble origin; second, deserved promotion; third, stockholder; fourth, capitalist; fifth, trust magnate; sixth, rich malefactor; seventh, caliph; eight — X. The eighth stage shall be left to the higher mathematics (O’Henry, A Night in New Arabia).

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