Examples Of Irony In Night By Elie Wiesel

“Ten minutes later, we were in front of the warehouse. A German employee, a civilian, the meister, came to meet us. He paid us about as much attention as a dealer might who was just receiving a delivery of old rags.” (58)

In a general sense, irony is a rhetorical device that is characterized by incongruity in the real situation and what is expected. The deliberate use of irony, especially in literary works and speeches, is used to emphasize a point. It is a language that in some of its forms understates facts, denies the contrary of the truth, or states the opposite of the truth. In all it’s forms, it elicits a similar effect to the audience. There

Irony is a useful device for giving stories many unexpected twists and turns. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," irony is used as an effective literary device. Situational irony is used to show the reader that what is expected to happen sometimes doesn't. Dramatic irony is used to clue the reader in on something that is happening that the characters in the story do not know about. Irony is used throughout Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" through the use of situational irony and the use of dramatic irony.

Irony, a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. Throughout Night there is use of situational and verbal irony. This use of irony keeps the reader interested. The use of irony causes the reader to know things that the characters often are not aware of.

The Holocaust was a horrific time period when over six million Jewish people were systematically exterminated by the Nazi government. Throughout this period, the Jews were treated particularly inhumane because the Nazi viewed their ethnicities as a disease to humanity. Dehumanization is a featured theme in Elie Wiesel’s novel about the Holocaust since he demonstrated numerous examples of the severe conditions endured by the Jewish people. The nonfiction story Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on inhumanity and reveals human beings are capable of committing great atrocities and behaving cruelly, when such actions are condoned by society, peer pressure, and ethical beliefs. Elie Wiesel uses literary devices to produce a consistent theme of inhumanity.

Wiesel says, “At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: Warning! Danger of death. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?” (40). His experiences trigger his mind to think this way. So far, he has been threatened to either work or be burned to death, his father has been hit with such strength by a Gypsy inmate that he has to crawl back to his spot, and they were forced to march all the way to Auschwitz through barbed wire and other obstacles. But, even though his experiences reflect this way of thinking, he still has not lost hope or faith in this scenario. The use of irony in this setting portrays the idea that the belief of hope is obvious among the group, and especially obvious to Elie. Still, this type of language induces images of violence and brutality brought on by the Nazis onto innocent people pleading

Verbal Irony is when words express something opposite of what is truthfully meant. The first example of verbal irony is whenever her husbands cooks a simple meal she shouts, "Aha! Scotch broth! What could be better?" This is irony because she acts as if she’s happy with the stew when she actually not. Instead as she says this she’s daydreaming of delicacies and a surrounding a higher class filled with silver and dishes upper class worthy. The second occurrence is when Madame Loisel husband comes home with an invitation to the ball and she calmly say, “ I have no dress and so I can't go to this party. Give your invitation to a friend whose wife has better clothes than I do."The reason this is verbal irony is because she makes it seem as if she does not want to go the party when in all actuality she’s trying to get him to buy her a dress for her to go. This is obviously put emphasis on by the way she cries then stops quickly before she makes her calmly toned statement ,which was in a way throwing a tantrum. in this example she’s being sarcastic again because she does not wish for her companion to give the invitation

To begin, Wiesel introduces verbal irony to compare paradise to the concentration camps. When they finished dinner, the veterans were discussing how Weisel was “lucky to have been brought here so late. This camp is paradise today, compared with what it was like two years ago,” (Weisel, Elie N. et. al. “From

The Holocaust claimed more than three million European Jews lives; this act is carried out by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, and author of Night, a memoir, recounts the atrocious events he endured as a teenager in the Holocaust. He lost himself and his beliefs through that horrific experience. He had been a young, observant Jewish; Eliezer had yearned to gain more knowledge pertaining to the spiritual customs of his faith. Throughout the duration of the memoir, Eliezer loses hope in the goodness of God. He believes he is not good because He is not stopping the frightening acts that were occurring all around him. In Night, irony conveys Eliezer’s change in faith.

To start with, verbal irony is irony in the form of words, but means the opposite of what is said. In the Labyrinth Jareth tells Sarah “fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave” which is an example of verbal irony. Sarah tells Jareth “piece of cake,” but means that the Labyrinth is really hard. Towards the end of the movie sarah says “that is how it's done,” but needs her friends help.

Irony existed in real life from immemorial time and will continue to be, therefore, the authors of literary works will continue in the future to use this literary technique in their work to highlight the truths of human society, and readers will continue to be interested in such works in the future. Irony is a comment used to transmit disappointment attitude of the speaker to a particular situation, comment by which it reminds the reader, which expectations he/she had, or what the speaker hoped to happen. The use of irony in literature refers to playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning.

Two types of irony would be dramatic and situational irony. Situational irony occurs when the outcome of an action or situation is quite different from

“Irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result” (Literary Devices & Literary Terms 2). For example, in the beginning of this short story Armand thought Desiree’s background was tainted when in the end Armand discovers he’s the one that carries the slave branded blood. The reader would think the same way as Armand; hence the fact that they didn’t know her origin/background and did in fact know Armand’s. “....I thank God for having so arranged our lives that our dear

Verbal Irony is when something is said that turns out to be different than what was meant, also known as sarcastic. For example, when my mom is furious with me and she dares me to say or do something again. She is not actually daring me to do something, she is actually warning me not to do it again or else. I really do not want to find out what the “ or else” is! When I was little and I was in competition cheer, my dad always told me to go break a leg before every performance. He obviously did not want

Irony: a difficult term to define can refer to a manner of expression or a quality in the thing perceived. In both cases, irony involves the perception of discrepancy, usually between apparent and real significance. It is an indirect way of communicating an attitude. Irony can vary in tone, from humorous to bitter. Example- Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Water, water, every where, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.”