As the world is becoming more specific, the writing techniques are also becoming more specific. The writers have more variety of literary tools such as allusion, metaphor, symbolism, and irony. Irony is the most common and most efficient technique of the satirist. Since this technique is so popular and being used in many different ways, people do not really understand the true meaning of the word. A clear understanding of the word irony as it …
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…characters and plot. This aspect of ingenious writing makes the literary classics what they are today. Works Cited The Oxford English Dictionary Robert, Barnhart, ed. The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology. New York: The h.w.<Tab/> Wilson, 1988. Lazarus, Arnold. Modern English. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Quinn, Edward. A Dictionary of Literary and Themotic terms. New York: Facts on<Tab/> File, 1999. DiYanni, Robert. Literature. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.