Found inside – Page 3dent in literary studies, as we can see from two of the standard works on ... to irony in the first place: Irony may be used as a rhetorical device to ...
Found inside – Page 29The rhetorical device of irony, as Fowler (1965) pointed out, is just one of ... IntheGreekdramaof Oedipus, for example, an utterance by Oedipus would seem ...
Found inside – Page 19IRONY AS A RHETORICAL DEVICE Not entirely foreign to the Greeks, irony as a ... 18 For example, Boiste writes under ironie only “Ironia, raillerie fine; ...
Found inside – Page 52an identification (a dog can likewise be a convenient example of fidelity). ... And since Socrates' rhetorical devices and moral being are inseparable, ...
Found inside – Page 49Other examples of this association of ironic author with ironic figure are not ... of Marke's responses by using the rhetorical devices of the inability and ...
Found inside – Page 119For example, the rhetorical device of irony, that is, saying one thing while obviously meaning its opposite, may be used to deprecate or ridicule the views ...