Part one of term paper
Irony is the general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting,or amusing contradictions. 1 Two stories that serve as excellent demonstrations of irony are “The Pardoners Tale” and “ The Nun's Priest's Tale,” both from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Although these two stories are very different, they bo ...

Part two of term paper
... while he is drunk, blasphemy, as he attempts to sell fake religious relics, and greed, when he himself is amazingly greedy. Yet there are also many ironic situations in the story itself. The irony starts when, in the begining of the story, the three rioters make a pact to “be brothers” and “each defend the others” and “to live and die for one another” in protection from Death, (lines 37-43) and then in going out to fulfill their vow, they end up finding money, and killing eac ...