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Literary Devices Used In 'Rip Van Winkle'

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One of the devices used in "Rip Van Winkle" is irony, and a lot of it too. He used irony to describe something but not directly saying it. He had his readers think and really get into his story. "Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence." In this he was stating that she nagged a lot. Another part of this story he describes Rip fishing and he'll sit there even if he doesn't get one bite, you may think he is trying to say that he is willing to wait but he's really trying to say that he was lazy. Another tool used in this story is inference. Irving uses inference to describe the relationship that Rip and his wife have. "Times grew worse and worse
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