Life in the Iron Mills
by Rebecca Harding Davis

Life in the Iron Mills: Irony 1 key example

Definition of Irony

Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this seems like a loose definition... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this... read full definition
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how... read full definition
Irony
Explanation and Analysis—De Profundis Clamavi:

Mitchell uses allusion and cruel verbal irony to comment on Hugh’s response to Dr. May declining to help him:

'Are you answered? Why, May, look at him! 'De profundis clamavi.' Or, to quote in English, 'Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints in him.'