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Can you pick out 4 examples in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain where dramatic irony is presented? Please?
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DRAMATIC IRONY involves the reader (or audience) knowing something about what's happening in the plot, about which the character(s) have no knowledge. Dramatic irony can be used in comedies and tragedies, and it works to engage the reader, as one is drawn into what is happening. The audience may sympathize with the character, who does not know the true situation. Or, the reader may see the character as blind or ignorant (as with Oedipus). The clues may be rather obvious, but the character may be unwilling to recognize the truth.
1 Twainâ ™s style is simple and conveys his ideas in a boyish mood. He gives his complex observations on society through the eyes and through the speech of a young boy out for adventure. He also pays close attention to detail in dealings with the different areas down the river, especially in speech and dialogue.
2 Most of the ironic situations stem out of Huckâ ™s youth and gullibility. An example of verbal irony is given when Tom tell Huck of his new gang. Huck says, â śBut Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.â ť It is obvious to the readers that a band of robbers are not generally considered respectable.
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3 There is also an example of dramatic irony when Huck tells of the drunk horseman at the circus. The readers know that the drunk was a trained acrobat but Huck does not see that.
Dramatic irony occurs when the reader is aware of something a character is not aware of. For instance, when Huckleberry Finn educates Jim about European royalty, the reader knows he has his dates and names mixed up (and same thing with Tim Sawyer when he tells Huck the same information at the end of the book); when Huck sees the man in the audience at the circus magically transform the show by riding skillfully on a horse, the reader knows that the audience member is a stooge, but Huckleberry Finn does not; when Huckleberry Finn agrees that the spelling of "George Jackson" is "Jaxon," the reader knows he is wrong, but H F takes the misspelling at face value and writes it down; when Huck admires the king's (or is it the duke's?) garbled version of Hamlet's soliloquy and thinks it is great acting, both the other of the old pair of frauds and Huckleberry Finn think it great acting, but for the reader it is not great and tragic and moving--to the reader it is a coarse and hysterically funny burlesque. dramatic irony :: Related Links -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia::
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