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    1) The irony is that they don’t want to allow any other religion in the church‚ because it might influence their religion. 2) The witch hunt years provided an excellent opportunity to "get even". 3) Tituba- African American slave Abigail- craves John Proctor‚ young‚ beautiful Betty- Reverend Parris’s daughter‚ fainted in forest 4) Out of all the children she had only one survive; Ruth‚ who is afflicted. 5) He was mad because he wanted his brother in law to be the next minister. 6) Parris doesn’t

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    What is Dramatic Irony? Dramatic Irony is when a situation of drama is understood by the audience‚ but not by the characters in the play. This impacts the play because then the audience can predict or realize who the bad person is‚ or what the conflict may be‚ where as the characters can not realize this until the real conflict begins. There are several examples of dramatic irony in the play “Much Ado About Nothing‚” three of them are Claudio shaming Hero‚ Benedick and Beatrice being in love‚ and

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    My Last Duchess Browning’s use of dramatic irony can be seen in the dramatic monologue of the Duke. The Duke views himself as a powerful person with “a nine-hundred-years-old name” while the reader views him as possessive. His tone is very possessive and haughty as he talks about how disgusted he was with the Duchess. The diction makes the Duke sound like he begins to rush what he says about the Duchess as he thinks more about her. His sentences are moving along as his train of thought goes on

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    Title: How does Shakespeare make this scene both a significant and dramatic moment in the play? In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth there are a lot of dramatic‚ exciting and tragic occurrences in many of the scenes. Although in the beginning‚ Shakespeare foreshadowed the tragedies that were to come nothing could have prepared the audience for what took place in Act 2 scene 3. This is the scene in which King Duncan is found murdered causing shock and panic in all the characters on stage. He dramatizes

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    On Cyprus‚ Iago‚ who is angered that Othello promoted Cassio plans to destroy Othello by convincing him that Desdemona is cheating on him with Cassio. If I could study a single aspect of the play is Shakespeare’s use of dramatic irony. An early example of that in the play is when Iago reveals his detailed plans to destroy Othello and the people Othello cares about. The audience witnesses and hears the entire plan and they are helpless to stop him. As Iago’s plan unfolds on

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    Romeo’s use of dramatic irony in Act III‚ Scene I develops conflict and builds Romeo’s character. When Tybalt seeks out Romeo in order to quarrel with him‚ Romeo is unwilling to fight the man who has recently become his relative‚ even though Tybalt is unaware of this relationship. Romeo apprises Tybalt that he loves him “better than [he] canst devise”‚ and says he cherishes the Capulet name‚ but also acknowledges that Tybalt does not know the reason for this love (3.1.64). Tybalt assumes that Romeo

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    Big Black Good Man “Big Black Good Man” by Richard Wright is my favorite story that I have read in English 131 this semester because of its conflicts‚ characters‚ and both its verbal and dramatic irony. To start‚ I believe that the time period in which Richard Wright wrote “Big Black Good Man” racial intolerance was an utmost factor in that time‚ and during this time size and color was daunting because hate was so durable. With that being

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    take their lives because their love was destroyed by their families hatred towards each other. In this story‚ Shakespeare uses a proliferate amount of irony to show that love is a strong bond that can bring peace and defeat enemy feuding. Shakespeare’s play is full of irony: dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal. For example‚ he demonstrates dramatic irony by foreshadowing how the messenger never got the message to Romeo. Romeo freaked out and went to his true loving thinking she wasn’t alive. He kissed

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    “A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves”(banksy)In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet he uses dramatic irony to toy with the audiences emotions or to make them cringe only to wonder why a character reacted to something the way they did. Dramatic irony is a literary technique‚ by which the full significance of a character’s words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. --- In the beginning of the play the narrator says

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    Juliet‚ William Shakespeare uses oxymoron and irony to show what the emotion of love can do and that rivalries can be broken by love. In the beginning of the novel‚ Romeo and Juliet fall in love‚ unknowing of their families feud. Being a Montague‚ Romeo could never fall in love with a Capulet. Thus‚ it was frowned upon by both families. In Act 1‚ Scene 5‚ Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to show that Juliet is in love with her enemy. It is dramatic irony because the readers know something the characters

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