Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0429 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Anchor Defines Irony Twice
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The idea
This course's anchor gives two different definitions of irony in two places. The glossary quotes Cicero, saying one thing and meaning another, then names verbal, dramatic and situational kinds. The Browning chapter instead calls irony a behaviour or event contrary to expectation. Those are not the same claim.
In practice
Two definitions, one anchor.
Where people slip
The divergence is real and is disclosed here.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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