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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 Station Eleven
Chapter 37
Explanation and Analysis—More You've Lost:
Kirsten and August discuss whether it’s easier to remember everything or remember nothing after the death of the modern world. Here, the narrator uses situational irony to highlight the painful burden of remembering the world before the Georgia Flu, as Kirsten muses:
But my point is, doesn’t it seem to you that the people who have the hardest time in this—this current era, whatever you want to call it, the world after the Georgia Flu—doesn’t it seem like the people who struggle the most with it are the people who remember the old world clearly? [...] What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
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Chapter 38
Explanation and Analysis—Remarkable Magazines:
In this passage from Chapter 38, Kirsten and August have broken into an abandoned house and are paging through old magazines. Kirsten uses verbal irony to highlight the absurdity of what has survived from the old world:
Unlock with LitCharts A+“Look at the date,” August said. “Two weeks till the apocalypse!”
“Well, it’s nice that at least the celebrity gossip survived.”
Nothing else in the rest of the magazines, but this find was remarkable, this was enough.
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