Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0431 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the Chapter's Reading Still Shows
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The idea
Its definition is narrow, but its reading is sound: the Duke condemns his wife's behaviour and reveals her to be an innocent free spirit. That gap between what a speaker intends and what a reader sees is genuine irony on either definition, so the analysis survives the terminology.
In practice
The reading holds; the label does not.
Where people slip
Keep the analysis, replace the term.
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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