A satire is a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn. In The Widow of Ephesus, the narrator recalls a tale of love in which an apparently faithful woman discredits her vows of marriage after her husband's death. She is tempted into this by a handsome young man, who attempts to save her life after she decides to entomb herself with her dead husband. This was not a very smart decision on her part, but she does it for love, and as a result, she is taken adv

In the poem "True Love" by Judith Viorst, a wife is telling how she knows it is true love between her and her husband because of the way they behave to each other in everyday situations. What makes these situations humorous is the fact that an unmarried 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 marria

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