All 6 Uses of
irony
in
Interview with the Vampire
- It was ironic, really.
Part 1ironic = when what happens is very different than what might be expected; or when things are together that seem like they don't belong together
- There is something perfect and ironic about it, this land which I loved producing refined sugar.†
Part 1
- "It would perhaps have been better all around if you had said nothing." And he smiled to see that I understood with him the irony of this.
Part 3 *irony = when what happened was very different than what might have been expected
- But she was gone from me into the arms of Madeleine, who enfolded her desperately, as if she might protect Claudia from me-the irony of it, the pathetic irony-protect Claudia from herself.†
Part 3
- But she was gone from me into the arms of Madeleine, who enfolded her desperately, as if she might protect Claudia from me-the irony of it, the pathetic irony-protect Claudia from herself.†
Part 3
- And, remembering suddenly and keenly Claudia's words, what were very nearly her last . words —that admission that she knew that I could love Armand because I had been able to love even her-those words struck me as rich and ironical, more filled with meaning than she could have guessed.†
Part 3