third part is Professional fingersmith. The tense increases and gains momentum when Hitchhiker held up the belt of the main character. The story is written in a humorous key. The author achieves the humorous effect with the help of detailing actions‚ when the officer of police spated out a gob. Roald Dahl used narrative technique a dialogue with an account of events in the text. Vocabulary level of the text: car parts are car body‚ car seats‚ wheelbase‚ engine. The car is personified with the pronoun
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“The Man from Ironbark” By A.B Patterson ‘The man from Ironbark’ is a humorous poem by Banjo Patterson. It is a ballad about a man from Ironbark who wants to get his hair and beard shaved in Sydney. This is so when he goes back to Ironbark he’ll be a ‘man or mark’. Unfortunately for him the barber there likes to play ‘tricks’ on people. The barber shaved his beard then dipped the razor in boiling water. Using the back of the razor he slashes it across his neck making the Man from Ironbark believe
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of the image of the product has more priority than the performance of the product. An article in‚ “The Onion‚” the author satirizes how products are marketed to consumers through means of a variety of literary strategies such as words and phrases‚ dialogue‚ and scientific vocabulary. First‚ the literary strategy of using words and phrases throughout the article to mock the long tradition of how marketing companies advertise their products. The product in this article is shoe inserts. For instance
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Figurative language: Use of words in ways they are not normally used in order to create a distinct‚ imaginative effect or impression. For example‚ in the expression “He sang at the top of his lungs‚” the suggested meaning of the words is understood—not their literal meaning. Hyperbole: A figure of speech that deliberately exaggerates a description about something or somebody to create a desired effect. Irony: A circumstance in which there is a contra¬diction or difference between what is intended
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uttering the humorous remark. Keywords: general theory of verbal humour‚ script opposition‚ target; solidarity‚ in-group identity 1. Introduction The central topic of this paper is to apply the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) to conversational narratives and to relate it to socio-pragmatic approaches. Script oppositions are considered as the necessary preconditions of humour while its perlocutionary effect (i.e. eliciting laughter) as the characteristic feature of the humorous text. Although
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a medical student’s years of professional training. The text belongs to the group of fictional texts. The events in the text refer to the real world and the author seeks to judge the text subjectively. The text under consideration is a witty and humorous description of such a hard and important thing in students’ life as their final exams. The author shows us the condition of students before‚ during and after exams‚ therefore‚ the aim of the text is to describe the students’ feelings‚ emotions and
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and “in the adjoining room”‚ which draws the reader’s attention to the blackly comic idea of two people trying to get comfortable in their tombs. Further‚ the alliteration used in “adjusted” and “adjoining” helps the reader to recognise the odd and humorous use of these words in relation to a dead person in a tomb. In these ways‚ humour allows the reader to engage with‚ and ultimately ‘belong to’‚ the notions described in the text. Despite the dark humour‚ the diction of “brethren” and “kinsmen” emphasise
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story about the Bundren family’s journey to bury Mrs. Bundren. Most of the family‚ however‚ has another reason to go to where Mrs. Bundren is being buried. The book itself is not meant to be taken seriously; Faulkner intended the book to be somewhat humorous. Because of the conflict between how the book is written and the book’s story‚ many scenes in the book that normally would be taken extremely seriously are now not as serious due to the book’s ‘dark humor.’ The comic aspects of the book tone down
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By examining these works‚ it will be clear that the devices Ives uses do little more than facilitate the telling of humorous sketches‚ and that they don’t generate any substance or lasting meaning. “Words‚ Words‚ Words” is an organized riot. It rebels against reason and is highly contrived. The appeal is its situation: three articulate monkeys who have an ironic wit. Their dialogue is entertaining and makes a good extended joke – if you’re well-read and especially if well-versed in Hamlet. But for
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Fernando Arrabal. ‘Arrabal jokes about war but thinks war is no joke.’ Discuss in reference to the play. In his play‚ ‘Picnic on the Battlefield’‚ Arrabal takes the subject of war and appears to make light of it‚ using the subject in a way that is humorous in its absurdity. However‚ the subject is treated in this way not because Arrabal believes war to be an inherently funny thing‚ but rather because he is opposed to war‚ this concept is illustrated effectively in the play. The irony of treating war
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