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Situational Irony
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Explanation and Analysis:
Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House is a prose drama written in three acts. One of the core elements of Ibsen’s style in this play is his dialogue. The play is written in common, everyday speech rather than elevated language. The conversations, like the characters' personalities, flow in ways that are believable and organic. This style of dialogue is a characteristic feature of realism, and a striking departure from previous trends in playwriting up to this point. Characters start and stop their sentences, mumble to themselves, and use colloquialisms, bringing their dialogue closer in form and structure to the same kind of language Ibsen’s own audience would use.
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