Irony
Check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. What is irony?
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2. Edward Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” is about a wealthy man who is envied by most, but who “Went home and put a bullet through his head.” This poem is an example of
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3. In Kenneth Fearing’s “AD,” the poem advertises for men to fight in World War II, claiming the job will be “New, tremendous, thrilling, great,” but that the wages are “Death.” How is this poem ironic?
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4. When a writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does, it is called
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5. The following poem by Stephen Crane, “A Man Said to the Universe,” is an example of what kind of irony: “A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’ / ‘However,’ replied the universe, / ‘That fact has not created in me / A sense of obligation’”?
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