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    and situational irony through Montag and Mildred to emphasize his points in the story about Mildred’s lack of acknowledgement for her real family‚ her forgetting about overdosing and Montag being a firemen who starts fires. Bradbury creates verbal irony to explain Mildred’s neglect for her real family‚ Montag. We see this happening when he asks her to turn off the parlor and she responds‚ “That’s my family” (Bradbury 46). This passage proves that Mildred is an example of verbal irony due to her calling

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    Unfortunate Irony In the poem “Hope” by Ariel Dorfman the use of irony is what really sets and delivers the mood of this heart wrenching story. The author uses a very straight forward approach in this poem because they are essentially just telling the story‚ adding loose rhythm and rhyme structure. The best way for the author to get the point of this tragedy across is with subtle but profound irony. The mother and father finding “joy” in this horrible event is the best example of irony. Irony in my

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    thought they were. Ms. Strangeworth appears to be a sweet old lady‚ but is she really? Throughout the story her true colors begin to reveal. Jackson develops this central idea through the use of irony. Through all three types of irony the theme is expressed. The first use of irony Shirley applies is verbal irony. When Ms. Strangeworth says to Mrs Crane‚ "Nonsense. All babies are different. Some of them develop much more quickly than others" is an example of verbal

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    examples of irony within the short story. It contains three types of irony. They include Dramatic‚ Verbal‚ and Situational Irony. The definition of irony as a whole is language which usually means the opposite for a humorous or emphatic effect. It can be when the reader knows more than the characters‚ a person says something and they really mean the opposite‚ or the story goes another way than intended. All of these in some way or another produce suspense. In the story there were types of irony. For instance

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    usually a good thing‚ but at the same time surprise can be a bad thing. Situational irony is what authors will use to create an unexpected twist in the story that will surprise the reader. Other than surprise‚ situational irony creates many more emotions for the reader. For example‚ O.Henry utilizes situational irony to develop a hysterical feeling in “The Ransom of Red Chief.” Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony to construct the feeling sorrow in his story “The Necklace.” By looking over “The

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    suffering man who discovers that he has committed patricide and incest and realizes that he is unable to change his fate. Dramatic irony abounds in this tragedy. Unbeknownst to the characters‚ the characters’ actions and words have great significance. Sophocles’ use of dramatic irony underscores the themes of human ignorance and godlike knowledge. Sophocles uses dramatic irony to stress the theme of ignorance. Oedipus is unaware that he is the plague to Thebes. For example‚ when Oedipus acknowledges that

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    The Irony of Red Chief The situation irony in The Ransom of Red Chief creates humor and developing them by giving little hints about what will happen and what might happen. Situation irony is a discrepancy of what will happen and what might happen. In movies or TV shows. The Ransom of Red Chief has a lot of examples of irony. The first example is how the boy thinks that he is going camping but really he is being kidnapped and sold back to his parents. According to paragraph 16 sentence 1 it states"I

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    is simple‚ even simplistic: that the unspoken part of the desire for victory over the enemy is the desire that misery and death befall others. The irony‚ as noted by the stranger who comments on this silent prayer‚ is that it is directed supposedly “in the spirit of love” to “Him who is the Source of Love” (398). In fact‚ Twain’s piece makes this irony unmissable‚ as it ends with the failure of the congregation even to understand the stranger’s point‚ let alone to take it to heart: “It was believed

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    Satire/Irony in ‘The Lottery’: The Lucky Ticket The use of Satire/Irony within literature establishes situations where the unlikelihood of the occurrence of an event will happen. Jackson’s manipulation of his story‚ The Lottery‚ provides an unexpected twist to what one may seem to be a normal subject. Northrop Frye’s The Singing School‚ suggests that all stories are told in either one of four ways: Comedy‚ Romance‚ Tragedy or Satire/Irony (Frye 18). The use of Irony and its conventional associations

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    Irony and surprise are common literary devices authors use to communicate their ideas when writing literary works. Irony allows the writer to suggest an interpretation that is different from the literal meaning of the words used in the text. The element of surprise allows the writer to manipulate the reader’s expectations and take them somewhere completely different. In the short stories‚ A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flanney O’Connor and Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood‚ both authors use the element

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