Many authors use irony to impact the story in different ways. Sometimes the author makes the tone very pleasant and dreamy‚ like every thing is good and ok‚ when all of the sudden the story is flipped completely‚ changing the whole outcome of the story. Irony can also be used in a much more subtle way‚ for example it doesn’t change the entire story‚ it just makes the reader think about what just happened a second time. For example‚ Ambrose Bierce’s short story‚ "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
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made from a combination of long grain rice‚ milk‚ and sugar. We both sipped on our ice cold drinks‚ while placing our orders to Maria. As we waited for our food to arrive‚ I headed towards a jukebox on the opposite side of where we were seated. I flipped through all the tracks of songs and in the end just chose one based on the the picture on the cover of the album. Just as I was heading back to my seat‚ I saw Maria with a circular tray the size of a tire filled with
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LOTF Rough Draft Imagine a world without leadership and order. One that wasn’t civilized‚ had no control. Such a world would be classified as savage at the very least. Ralph represents this leadership and order in the boys’ new world on the island. When he loses his ability to stay sane and keep order‚ everything turns for worse. Golding portrays the importance in control and advantageous leadership through the protagonist‚ Ralph in the novel Lord of The Flies by illustrating
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their life and they truly looked up to her as their mother. Angela was like the universal mother figure. Even people who were not related to her called her grandma. She was always worrying about everyone else but herself. Then one day the situation flipped. Grandma had always been extremely healthy even though she smoked occasionally. She rarely got sick‚ but surprisingly she developed a chest cold. Chest colds normally only last about a week or so‚ but this one went on for a month. She decided to see
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one of the biggest moments in my life happened. While I was driving my car began to shake and I ended up losing my front driver side wheel and my back passenger side wheel. As these came off my car I went into a tailspin. I hit an embankment and flipped the car 4 times. I would try to get out and when I put my right foot down I instantly collapsed and it
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Teachers and guns‚ is it ok? There has always been a contradiction on the topic. People have argued that it isn’t safe and that it shouldn’t be allowed for years. It has already been passed in 18 states and many public and private schools have already begun allowing it. Guns should be allowed to be concealed by select teachers in all schools. Teachers should be able to carry firearms at school. “the arming of teachers would have a greatly immediate impact on violent behavior in schools by criminals
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Write a story starting with this sentence: ‘I turned over the question paper‚……….’ I turned over the question paper‚ I flipped through all the pages. I did not know how to answer any of the questions. I racked my brain to recall what I had studied yesterday but I barely could remember anything. I viewed around the class and found all my classmates were poring over and solving the question papers intently. My bosom friend‚ Serene was sitting beside me at the corner of the
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jobs. Manufacturing was a key component of the United States economy and it has been shipped overseas. Walmart claimed to generate trade going the other way‚ but it was a lie. They took control of the whole manufacturing end in the United States and flipped it abroad. It’s not fair trade and it’s not free trade; it’s a rigged system. So when United States customers buy the lowest prices at Walmart‚ what they are really doing for their country is putting people out of work and lowering their country’s
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SUPER STAR bY: bRISA kANE‚ 703 Evie Thompson‚ Evie Thompson: I wondered if anybody thinks about that name or even considers it. If they did they would probably be talking about the wrong Evie. The crisp morning breeze blew my brown scraggly hair out behind me and pressed my old rainbow shirt closer to my stomach. I shivered‚ pulling my coat closer to my body. Now is probably the point in the story where you want hear about some crazy secret I have or the fact I can do magic. But
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“Okay‚ everything looks good‚” they nod and hand me a small plastic receipt‚ “Go ‘round the corner and one of our technicians will be with you shortly.” I’d been donating blood to ZLB plasma for the past few months‚ ever since I’d left Lana and the luxury of Kenwood for this small one bedroom apartment in Stadium Village. Twice a week I would come here‚ less than a block from the apartment that Chris had let me use while he was deployed in Iraq. He was just a young boot-ass then‚ always getting
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