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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
Chapter 7. I Go to Bristol
Explanation and Analysis—The Trustworthy Buccaneer:
Jim first meets the ship's sea-cook Long John Silver in Chapter 7, encountering him by chance in Bristol. When Jim notices that one of Silver's leg is cut off at the hip, he wonders if Silver is the dangerous pirate Billy Bones warned him about. But Silver is "intelligent and smiling" and seems much different from the other pirates Jim has encountered so far:
I had seen the captain, and Black Dog, and the blind man Pew, and I thought I knew what a buccaneer was like—a very different creature, according to me, from this clean and pleasant-tempered landlord.
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