Question

Which of the following quotations by Huck’s father in chapter 5 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an example of irony?
"Starchy clothes—very. You think you're a good deal of a big-bug, DON'T
you?"
“You're educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can’t?”
“And looky here—you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what HE is.”
"All right. I'll ask him; and I'll make him pungle, too, or I'll know the reason why.

Answer 1

The second quotation:

“You're educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can’t?”

Why: It’s ironic because Pap—who himself cannot read or write—is criticizing Huck for feeling superior due to his education. The meaning is undercut by the situation (and Pap’s hypocrisy), so the line reads as verbal/situational irony.

(Quotes 1 and 4 are straightforward insults/threats; quote 3 is boastful and threatening rather than ironic.)