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[BubblesTheMonkey]

Please help me.

What is an example of verbal irony in "The Pardoner's Tale"? Thanks!

[Mary]

I would suggest that the section of the tale where the three young revelers set out to "kill" Death would be an example of verbal irony. Good luck!

[Charity]

The three rioters swore to protect each other and destroy death, but ended up killing each other.

[Marsha]

Since verbal irony is when a character says one thing and the truth is another, I would suggest that the Pardoner telling the tale is the primary verbal irony. Although the narrative is rife with irony, before he relays it, the Pardoner boasts to his fellow pilgrims that he uses this very exemplum when he preaches against greed--with its moral "Greed is the root of all evil"--while he himself lives completely for avarice.

[Annemarie]

The wife of bath's tale is full of verbal irony. I just taught a section on it. Her mis-interpretation of biblical scripture to validate her life choices are an acceptable use of verbal irony. For example when she claims that since God commanded that mankind be fruitful and multiply it's good that she keeps marrying... but doesn't have children, or her intense love for her fifth husband whom she courted while #4 was alive(and possibly helped him to kill #4) only to admit that he beats her. My favourite is that she uses the biblical reference to King Solomon as to why she should be allowed to have multiple husbands at once. As my students said of her "you do you girl!"

[Annemarie]

The prioress' tale is also a sort of verbal irony. When introduced to this character in the prologue Chaucer gives us a lovely delicate woman who appears to be the very image of womanly grace (yeah, I don't buy that crap either). She then proceeds to tell us the most horrid, racist and nasty tale in the book.
I posted a video for my students, I hope this helps you:
https://www.youtube.com/user/englishc...

[Ich]

Marsha wrote: "Since verbal irony is when a character says one thing and the truth is another, I would suggest that the Pardoner telling the tale is the primary verbal irony. Although the narrative is rife with i..."

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