This paper analyses the characterization of Liu Bang in the ironic view: how the author employs skillfully verbal irony, situational irony and dramatic irony to depict an image of Liu Bang against the one in official history.

This artistic skill of dramatic irony plays an important role in developing the dramatic plot,and deepening the theme.

This paper intends to make an application of Austin s Speech Act Theory and Searle s Indirect Act Theory to the interpretation of dramatic irony in Hamlet,which is one of the basic features of the play.

The artistic qualities of the narrative irony in contemporary Chinese fiction are clearly discernible from the following four perspectives: (1) the irony of bantering, which makes ironic significance through the similarity of the linguistic code on the surface level and the disparity of that code in the deep level between the bantering text and the matern.

From the perspective of the structuralist literary criticism,this paper thoroughly analyzes the "anti-drama" artistic writing feature in the text of Waiting for Godot in terms of anti-plot,anti-character,anti-language,anti-time,anti-place and anti-tragicomedy,expounds the social psychological reality,the influence of modern .