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    Passage-based essay 2. The moment in which Elizabeth tells a lie in order to save her husband’s life‚ indicates dramatic irony. The playwright makes this happen when first John Proctor calls Abigail’s a whore and‚ in spite of the humiliation he felt‚ revealed his affair with her. As Danforth cannot believe the seventeen year-old girl is actually a “whore”‚ he asks Goody Proctor to come up to test the truth of this charge. Before she enters the court‚ John swears Elizabeth is an extremely honest

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    Chopin’s short stories‚ ironies are a regular and are typically expected. Chopin uses different types of ironies throughout her essays to create an atmosphere full of surprises and creativity‚ causing her short stories to be unpredictable and can cause the ending of the story to be unforeseeable. In arguably one of her most known short stories‚ “The Story of an Hour‚” Chopin uses many different examples and types of irony that add color and a sense of uncertainty in the story. One could even claim that the

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    Authors use irony to make stories more exciting. To begin‚ in the movie The Labyrinth‚ there was some verbal irony. Verbal irony is when a character says something that they don’t really mean. The first example of verbal irony was when Sara referred to the labyrinth as a “piece of cake” while she was truly having many difficulties. Another was when Hoggle the goblin said that he could never hurt Sara‚ but he still gave her the poisonous peach anyway. And finally the last was Hoggle said he didn’t

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    The Role of Irony in "Everyman" The desire for wealth and prosperity is what drives many in this world‚ but is that truly the best motivation? In the play Everyman‚ irony is used to promote the idea that materialistic things are pointless and the only truly valuable thing is the goodness of a person’s deeds. When the time comes to leave this life‚ nothing but good deeds will follow over into the afterlife. Wealth and friends will not be able to help a person once they die. Help will come only

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    The Irony of Capital Punishment Capital punishment has been a part of our justice system since the beginning. For many years the controversy of the death penalty has created social issues that question the validity and fairness based on concerns of moral and human rights. Even though many other nations use this form of justice‚ the fact that the United States views itself as a leader of human rights brings question to whether we are practicing what we preach. Nevertheless‚ the majority of US citizens

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    gotten active. While in high school I quickly realized what procrastination is and what causes it. For a student such as myself‚ I have come to notice when one has a large amount of time to complete something they tend to wait till the last minute. I personally have taken the "get active" way of school. I began to join clubs and community activities to take up some of my time. By this I was left with less time to get my assignments complete‚ with that in mind I began to complete them as soon as my

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    Stop Smoking Cigarettes I think that Americans should stop smoking cigarettes. First‚ cigarettes are very bad for the body’s health. Second‚ smoking cigarettes is a very expensive habit. Finally‚ people should stop smoking because not only is it bad for your health but it is also bad for the appearance. Americans should stop smoking cigarettes since it is so detrimental to there health. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30%

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    The uses of irony can easily captivate or excite us. Many times in order to understand the morals or theme of a story you need to be able to recognise the irony. In the short stories‚ “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl‚ “The Gift of the Magi” by O Henry and “The Suit” by Can Themba various forms of irony are present. These forms of irony include: verbal‚ situational and dramatic irony. The first story “Lamb to the Slaughter” is about Mary Meloney‚ a devoted caring wife that ends up killing her

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    America’s greatest playwrights‚ living or dead‚ is a master of verbal irony. An examination of three strong examples of verbal irony in Millers play‚ The Crucible‚ will prove this out. While Miller started the genre of the tragedy of the common man‚ and is also know for his thoughtful and decisive plot lines‚ much of his fame‚ possibly can be attributed to his brilliant use of language generally‚ and his use of verbal irony in particular. Amidst the drama of the court scene in Act III‚ Proctor

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    great suspense and irony that Shirley Jackson tells the story of a lottery in a small town. The result of the lottery is also left open to be interpreted by the reader. All this could not be done without the use of the third person objective point of view in which the story ‚“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ is told. Shirley Jackson uses situational irony as well as verbal irony to keep the readers on their toes and especially to keep the ending a surprise. Achieving this irony would be very difficult

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