Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0432 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Naming the Irony in This Poem
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The idea
By the glossary's scheme the poem runs on dramatic irony, since the reader knows what the Duke does not know he is revealing. His individual phrases also work as verbal irony where his praise indicts him. Both terms are available and the question will indicate which it wants.
In practice
Dramatic mainly, verbal in places.
Where people slip
Two kinds, both present.
Your place on the trail
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