What does the verbal irony in this text suggest? after a jog around the block, ellie collapsed on the couch and declared with a wheeze, "well, i'm ready to run a marathon."

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile