In these two example, one speaks ~with~ irony, the other ~of~ irony:
Excerpted from "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
And this:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
– Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C
2006-12-10 12:39:00
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answered by ? 4
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What type of ironic example because there are three types of irony. Including Situational, Verbal, and Dramatic irony.
2006-12-10 12:29:25
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answered by Bri 2
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He is a classic one.
Geroge Bush taking John Kerry to task on his war record, when George never fought a day of combat in his life, and DeadEye Dick Cheney got four student deferrments and a pregnant wife disallowance to avoid service
2006-12-10 11:26:30
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answered by Anonymous
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