Question

we smile, but, o great christ, our cries to thee from tortured souls arise. we sing, but oh the clay is vile beneath our feet, and long the mile; but let the world dream otherwise, we wear the mask! –"we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar which idea does the irony emphasize?

Answer 1

The idea that the irony emphasizes is "we wear the mask," which means they look happy because they wear the mask, but in fact they are not happy.

• Irony is one of figurative language which is using words for expressing something that has the opposite meaning of the actual or  its literal meaning

1. The mask cover up their unhappiness be look happiness
2. "we smile" >< "our cries to thee from tortured souls arise."
3. "we sing, but oh the clay is vile beneath our feet, and long the mile; but let the world dream otherwise"

• Figurative language refers to words or phrases that are meaningful, but not the actual meaning.
• The examples of figurative language: Irony, Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Allusion

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