reader wouldn't expect this to be the way married people would behave. Since irony is incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result, their behavior is a perfect illustration of irony. For example, the line “When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the middle of the street, I always hope he’s dead,” the reader is shocked because hoping a spouse is dead is not typically the way people envision marriage.In the story The Widow of Ephesus by Gaius Petronius and the poem “True Love” by Judith Viorst, the authors use satire and irony to depict love in its truest form. They do this through manipulating humorous accounts to fit the story, like in “True Love,” and also through exposing human faults, like in The Widow ...
