What is the definiton of verbal irony and some examples?
Verbal irony is a trope in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express. or A contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is meant examples: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man”. Mark Antony really means that Brutus is dishonourable The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Dimmesdale confesses to his congregation that he is the “worst of sinners.” but his congregation “did but reverence him the more”; they said that if “a saint on earth” could find sin in himself than they must truly be terrible. Dimmesdale wants the people to shun him as they did Hester, but they do and say the exact opposite. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost: The speaker knows he will tell the old story “with a sigh” of a choice that “made all the difference.” Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen When Mr.
