Stephen Crane is a famous naturalist writer in the nineteenth Century.He creates a new method of literary writing in America.His famous novel The Red Badge of Courage is an episode of the American civil war.The novel’s rhetoric device"irony"is worthy of contemporary scholars to carry out in-depth research.Crane adopts irony in his works to enhance the performance of language tension and the profound theme of the novel.The artistic features of irony appear in the novel frequently,such as verbal irony,scene irony and structural irony,which constructs the basic framework and structure of this novel and makes it more humorous,more ironic and more meaningful.
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