“you’ve got to realize,” he said, “that i don’t want you to do it if you don’t want to. i’m perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you.”

“doesn’t it mean anything to you? we could get along.”

which literary device is used in the passage above?
irony
sarcasm
understatement

Understatement

Explanation:

Understatement is a figure of speech that describes a situation as less important or serious than it really is. It is often used to be more polite, or for ironic or humorous effects.

The passage uses this figure of speech because the speaker is deliberately trying to convey that his desire for someone to do something is not strong, however, in reality, the repetition and the emphasis they put on these ideas are proof that the speaker does care, and would like the other person to do what he says he does not want to.

he agrees with the monk's positions.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.