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1 sustained\ irony
a) a type of irony, intuitively feeling the reversal of the evaluation, formed by the contradiction of the speaker's (writer's) considerations and the generally accepted moral and ethical codes;b) a number of statements, the whole of the text, in whose meaning we can trace the contradiction between the said and implied.Many examples are supplied by D.Defoe, J.Swift of by such twentieth c. writers as S.Lewis, K.Vonnegut, E.Waugh and others.
When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hung it in the men-servants' lavatory; it was her one combative action. (E.Waugh)
Source: V.A.K.Ant.: verbal ironySee: lexical SDsEnglish-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > sustained\ irony
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