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Definition of Verbal Irony
Verbal irony occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from—and often opposite to—what they actually mean. When there's a hurricane raging outside and someone remarks "what... read full definition
Verbal irony occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from—and often opposite to—what they actually mean. When there's a hurricane raging... read full definition
Verbal irony occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from—and often opposite to—what they actually mean... read full definition
Chapter 18. Hapless Visitors
Explanation and Analysis—This Truthful Narrative:
By the end of Book One in The Master and Margarita, so much has gone awry that sparrows dancing the foxtrot and a disappearing, fanged nurse in Professor Kuzmin’s office seem less like exceptions than the expectation. Closing Chapter 18, Bulgakov ironically ushers the reader into the work’s next section with verbal irony:
We do not know what other fantastical events took place in Moscow that night and, of course, we shall not try to search them out—especially since the time has come for us to go on to the second part of this truthful narrative. Follow me, reader!
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