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Irony In Ransom Of Red Chief By Edgar Allan Poe

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“The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. “In literature there are multiple types of irony like situational, dramatic and verbal. But in the story The Cask of Amontillado they use all 3 types of irony to foreshadow death and in the Ransom of Red Chief they use irony to create humor with all 3 types of irony. Though there are some similarities, O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe use 3 types of irony in Ransom of Red Chief and The Cask of Amontillado just differently. The stories Ransom Red Chief and The Cask of Amontillado use dramatic irony, but portray different things with the irony. In the story Ransom of Red Chief they use dramatic irony when Bill was fed up with Red Chief. Then Bill left him in the Wilderness to find his way home, …show more content…

Examples in Ransom of Red Chief are there is a town called summit which actually is lower to the ground and a neighboring mountain is more of a summit. In the story it says, “There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called Summit…About two miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense cedar brake”(O. Henry 23). This proves that really a place called summit shouldn’t be flat and have a very low attitude, but its neighboring mountain should be called a summit. Then in The Cask of Amontillado they used verbal irony when the narrator sees Fortunato in the beginning right after talking up the plan for killing Fortunato. In the short story in stated,” My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met” (Poe 5).This demonstrates that the reader knows that the narrator wants to kill Fortunato, then acts extremely nice to him when we know his intention. He was really just being sarcastic about being happy to see Fortunato. Again they use different types of irony like situational to influence the

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Verbal irony occurs when what is said is different from what is meant. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” an example of verbal irony is the final line of the story when Montresor, the protagonist, has just killed Fortunato by walling him up in a tomb in the catacombs beneath Montresor’s palazzo. Montresor says, “In pace requiescat!” (214) which in English translates to “May he rest in peace!” This is verbal irony because, as Montresor has just murdered Fortunato, the reader can infer that Montresor does not wish Fortunato to rest in peace, though that is what he said.

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