"Satire,sarcasm and irony in the play "Importance of being earnest" by Oscar Wilde"

Irony is one of the most frequently used and most important language means serving people to express their personal opinion towards various phenomena in their lives. It is used by variety of users without any limitations, such as age, gender, educational background, either intuitively or on purpose. Irony as a phenomenon has been studied by various linguists, especially pragmaticians.

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Since there are no strict rules for creating ironic statements, its production, understanding, and usage must be treated very carefully. The purpose of this work is to analyze satire, sarcasm, and irony in Oscar Wilde's play “The Importance of Being Earnest”. Tasks of this work: 1. Definition of irony, satire, sarcasm 2. Analysis of the play "Importance of being earnest" by Oscar Wilde 3. Determination of the features of irony, satire, sarcasm in the play 4. Analysis of the role of irony, satire, sarcasm in the play The object of this work is the play "Importance of being earnest" by Oscar Wilde". The subject of this work is the analysis of satire, sarcasm and irony in the play "Importance of being earnest" by Oscar Wilde. The following general and particular methods were used during the study: • analysis of methodological literature; • comparison; • measurement: • description: • concretization: • generalization and analysis of the results. In accordance with the tasks set, an appropriate structure of the project was developed, which includes: 35 pages, 4 chapters, 6 references.

The purpose of this article was to discuss the role of irony as one of the stylistic means used to express something different or opposite to what the speaker actually thinks. In the first chapter, the meanings of the concepts of sarcasm, irony and satire were determined. In the second chapter, several key theoretical approaches to irony and its features in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest were compared and analyzed. The third chapter provides examples proving that neither implicit nor explicit markers of irony play a significant role for the author; that much of the irony in this play is based on the situation or context, and that the irony was mainly used to achieve humorous effect. In the fourth chapter, the main roles of satire, sarcasm and irony were identified.

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