Life in the Iron Mills Literary Devices

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

Key Examples in Life in the Iron Mills

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.'

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Life in the Iron Mills: Irony 1 key example

Definition of Irony

Key Examples in Life in the Iron Mills