The correct answer is option A.
Verbal irony is defined as the contradiction between what is said and what is really meant.
For example, you see a friend wearing a horrible shirt and you say "what a beautiful shirt!", meaning exactly the opposite.
In literature, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Marc Antony delivers a speech in which he refers to Brutus as an "honorable man" when actually Brutus took part in the murder of Caesar.
