Importance of Being Earnest Expect the Unexpected Throughout Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" various different literary devices are very effectively and skillfully used. Most of these literary devices create a sense of comedy in the book. One that especially puts a light- hearted tone into the reading is the inverted logic, which almost every character is guilty of using at one time or another. Just when you think you know what a character …showed first 75 words of 1081 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1081 total…at better way to have the reader want to turn the page then to totally perplex them about how a character might act or react next. There is not one time in the entire story in which what the reader expects to happen really occurs. In fact, things get so unexpected that you just have to laugh at it. This is comedy at its best. "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" as Oscar would say.