Verbal Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado And Young Goodman Brown

The short stories “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne use verbal irony to elaborate the text. Both short stories explain the verbal type of irony. Verbal irony is a situation in which a character says the opposite of what he or she means. Verbal irony is not always shown in the text directly. The reader most of the time has to continue reading until the end of the passage, to actually see if it was verbal irony instead of a different type of irony. In “Young Goodman Brown”, examples of verbal irony are the names of the characters. This is considered verbal irony because the main character’s last name is Goodman, meaning a “good man”. However, he is portrayed to walk late