According to your research, the growth rate in dividends for DR Dime for the previous 10 years has been negative 14 percent. If investors feel this growth rate will continue, what is the required return for DR Dime stock?

The sentence is filled with verbal irony. If taken literally, the reader would think that the narrator enjoys the beauty of old, blackened brick walls, and is pleased that his window is so close to one as to afford him a good view. Identifying the use of verbal irony in this sentence allows the reader to understand that the narrator is actually disgruntled with the scene his window presents.