摘要：In this paper I have tried to explain how the discourse structure of irony - of the most complex, vocal and meaningful linguistic and literary devices – can best be revealed in the prose fiction which can an Essay, a short story or a Novel .To me, it appears that the meaningful use of irony for the purposes of communication can best be taught with the help of a novel. Both irony and the novel use the same discourse structure and, hence, they help each other in communicating the several layers of meanings which hide, in themselves, the linguistic and literary beauty of irony and the novel. Irony can best be communicated through the events and conditions of the fictional world and construed from the description itself. It requires the help of both – What happens and how it is described. And both are the basic of the novel. So a lesson in irony can best be given with the help of a novel. For my purposes, I will take the help of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.
