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Seemingly, these women were blaming their husbands. Actually, that is not the case. They loved their husbands so much that irony was used to manifest their real affection indirectly by the author.
(v) Irony for emphasis
Irony can be approved in the following example that it can emphasize the opposite meaning.
Example:
我于是日日盼望新年，新年到，闰土也就到了。第一论文范文网www.11665.com编辑。
好容易到了年末，有一日，母亲告诉我，闰土来了，我便飞跑的去看。
（I looked forward every day to New Year, for New Year would bring Runtu. At last the end of the year came, and one day Mother told me that Runtu had come, and I flew to see him.）[40]                                                    
Here “好容易” can be easily understood as its real meaning “好不容易”.People can catch its meaning as this is an common expression in Chinese, say, “好不高兴”means “好高兴”，and so on.

6.3 The comparison between English irony and Chinese irony
There are both similarities and differences between English irony and Chinese irony. The similarities lie in some aspects. They are both used for satirizing, amusing and producing humor. It seems that the differences count much more than the similarities.
The differences between English irony and Chinese irony mainly lie in four points as follows.Firstly, the classification of English irony differs from that of Chinese irony. The four major types of irony in English are verbal, dramatic, situational and comic. To some extent, Chinese irony is included in English irony as verbal irony. Secondly, English irony depends on context to a larger extent whi[转贴于:论文大全网 https://www.11665.com/Foreignlanguage/langageculture/201103/53598.html]

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