Three Types of Irony — All in One Story

Jim LaBate
4 min readJul 31, 2020
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When I first began teaching over 40 years ago, I taught high-school English to freshmen and sophomores. Each day was exciting because those fresh, young faces were alive and curious and enthusiastic, and I was eager to share with them my love for literature and for writing. One of the works that we thoroughly enjoyed was William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet because my students could easily and clearly identify with…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.