irony in sense and sensibility

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1、IronyinSenseandSensibility　　Abstract：ThisessayisintendedtoexaminethetechniqueofironyinSenseandSensibilitywrittenbyJaneAustenin1811.Itismainlydevotedtothreeaspectsofironyemployedinthenovel：theverbalirony，thedramaticirony，andthesituationalirony.Itwouldbebenefici

2、altoourbetterunderstandingofthenovel.Andirony，asatechniqueofwriting，isfrequentlyconsideredasoneofJaneAusten‘soutstandingcharacteristics.　　Keywords：senseandsensibility；theverbalirony；thedramaticirony；thesituationalirony　　Introduction　　SenseandSensibilityisAuste

3、n’sfirstpublishednovel，whichsheinitiallycalledElinorandMarianne.ElinorandMarianne，thetwomajorheroinesinthenovel，havetheoppositedispositions.Theformerisasensible，self-controlledandrationalcreature，butthelatterisastrikingemotional，unreservedandwildlyromanticgirl

4、.ThedifferencebetweenthemoffersAustenplentyofscopesforbothironyandcomparison.Ironycanbeusedasatechniqueofwriting，aswellasafigureof10speech.“Asawritingtechnique，therearetwobasicfeaturesforirony.Theyarethecontradictionbetweenfalseimpressionandtruthandtheunknowin

5、gofthecontradiction.”（ZhangLiping）Mythesisjustfocusesontheironicperspectivetoexplorethenovel.Inaddition，wewilllookatKreuzandRoberts’classification.Accordingtotheirexplanation，ironyisclassifiedintofourtypes：socraticirony，dramaticirony，theironyoffateorsituationa

6、lirony，andverbalirony.“...2）Verbalironyistheuseoflanguagetoexpressasurfacemeaningandadifferent，usuallyintended，underlyingmeaning.3）Dramaticironyistheawarenessbyaplay’saudienceofthefateinstoreforacharacterthatisnotknowntothecharacterhimself.4）Theironyoffateorsi

7、tuationalironyreferstoasituation，eventetc.，thatisdesirableinitselfbutsounexpectedorill-timedthatitappearstobedeliberatelyperverse.”（YaoJun）JaneAustentendstoadopttheverbalirony，thedramaticironyandthesituationalironyinSenseandSensibilitytomakehercharactersrichan

8、dinteresting.　　TheVerbalIrony　　Inanarrowsense，ironyisfrequentlyconsideredasverbalirony，whichmeansanarratorexpressesaliteralmeaningtoshowhisorherideasandattitudes，butexactlytoindica