Angela's Ashes is an autobiographical memoir written by Frank McCourt about his childhood from his infant years in Brooklyn, through his adolescence in Limmerick, Ireland and his return to America at the age of nineteen. This novel is characterized by various aspect of style. McCourt uses rhetorical devices such as repetition and bombast to good effect, he uses irony especially when depicting the juvenile Frankie. His style is also characterized by a colloquial which is important to the realism of the text.
             A richly irony style typifies much of McCourt's prose. McCourt uses irony which is use of the humorous words to imply the opposite of their actual meaning; when a straightforward statement is undermined by its context to provide a different significance. Like for example when Frankie gets confused about his birth, it creates a gloomy atmosphere. But because of McCourt's use of irony, it creates humor that alleviates the gloom.
             McCourt's style is also characterized by the use of repetition.
             Repetition is usually used for emphasis and McCourt uses this style of writing to give us a strong feeling of his state of mind at a particular point of his life especially through his suffering childhood full of poverty and sadness. "It was of course, a miserable childhood; the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish catholic childhood." McCourt's use of repetition pf the word 'miserable' lets the readers know that McCourt's memory of his childhood is only full of 'miserable' events such as his brother and sister's death and being raised by a drunkard father who is obsessed with being patriotic and always questioning his son, "You'll die for Ireland, won't you son?"
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