How Does Julius Lester Use Verbal Irony

Julius Lester did not use any verbal irony in this story. That means he did not say one thing, but mean another. This did not make the story any less funny. O. Henry did use verbal irony, by calling Johnny a “lambkin”. Johnny was a bad boy and was not as quiet as a lamb. Using verbal irony made this story more funny, because we know that Johnny was definitely not quiet.

Julius Lester used comic language like the” forty-eleventh of Octorarry” this is a made up day that Lester uses to make the rabbit sound funnier. O. Henry use comic language by using the real word like summit for the name of a town that was completely “flat as a pancake”. The authors use of comic language made the stories funnier.

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