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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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    Amontillado”‚ written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ he uses dramatic‚ verbal‚ and situational irony throughout his story to create an unreliable narrator. A man who has plenty of knowledge of wine is being led to his death. The speaker of this story is displayed as unreliable because of the three types of irony used but‚ verbal irony is strongly used to make the speaker untrustworthy. One of the many examples that display verbal irony in the story is when Montresor meets Fortunato on the way to the carnival

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    In “The Tell-Tale Heart‚” irony occurs throughout the story. For exampleirony occurs when the old man locks himself in his home to escape evil only to be killed by someone within. Poe states‚ “His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters had been close fastened‚ through fear of robbers)…” (524). By looking at this quotation‚ we can see that the old man feared being robbed‚ so he placed shutters on all the doors to be safe and to keep thieves from stealing his gold and

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    In the classic Greek play Oedipus‚ the King‚ written by Sophocles‚ he writes with dramatic irony to create suspense as you read along. By adding parts of the play that prove that the readers know more than the characters themselves do. For instance‚ when Oedipus gathered the townspeople of Thebes around and commanded them to give up the murder of Laius. Oedipus cursed the murderer (himself) saying “Upon the murderer i invoke this curse: may he live out his life in misery to miserable doom!” With

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    tales are told in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Probably the greatest on is "The Pardoner’s Tale". A greedy Pardoner who preaches to feed his own desires tells "The Pardoner’s Tale". This story contains excellent examples of verbal‚ situational‚ and dramatic irony. Verbal irony occurs when a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something quite different. He tells the other pilgrims that his sermons reflect how money is the root of all evils‚ "radix malorum est cupiditas." He

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    by Edgar Allen Poe is about a psychotic man named Montresor who seeks revenge against Fortunato‚ a man who allegedly committed malice towards him. Poe utilizes verbal irony to establish the story’s events and to create a humorous yet subtle way to show the misfortunes of Fortunato which eventually leads up to his death. For example‚ “Enough‚ he said; the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough” (Poe 241). Fortunato is correct because the cough does not kill him‚ however

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    Taylor Coleridge uses several types of sound devices to enhance the meter and rhyme of the poem written in seven main parts. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚” Coleridge uses sound devices such as alliteration‚ onomatopoeia‚ consonants‚ assonance‚ internal rhymes‚ and end rhymes to heighten the meaning‚ mood‚ and imagery of the poem. In lines 7 through 8 of the poem‚ Coleridge uses consonance in the words “guests‚” “feast‚” and “May’st.” Repeating the “st” sound here emphasizes the images of a busy

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    History of the Sound Card: How it Came About The very first sound card every manufactured was a Sound Blaster card. Far West was the manufacturer of the first Sound Blaster sound card. Let’s step back a little in time to take a look back at when sound cards haven’t even yet existed. "Computers were never designed to handle sound." Before sound cards were invented‚ the only sounds you would hear from a computer would be the beeps that would tell you if something was wrong with the computer

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    Dramatic irony plays a large role in Othello; it is most prominent in Iago’s lines. It is specifically seen when Iago outright lies to characters‚ when he misrepresents his personality to other people‚ and when other characters talk about Iago in a way he is not. Iago constantly tells other characters slight untruths or outright lies. His constant use of lying puts the audience on edge because they always know when he has lied. One of his major lies is when he tells Othello that his wife‚ Desdemona

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    Below is a free essay on "Importance of Silence" from Anti Essays‚ your source for free research papers‚ essays‚ and term paper examples. In Praise of Silence Why do we go on camping trips? Sure the campfires‚ the hiking‚ the kayaking are all fun. But what is the real reason for driving hours away from a cozy home to sleep on the ground in a flimsy tent with no proper toilets within miles? Why do people even bother with packing all their belongings into a car so that they can sleep in the middle

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