Fatima Jaber Mr. Lettiere English 10 – Honors February 4th‚ 2014 Antigone: Irony 1. “But it is those that are most obstinate suffer the greatest fall.” (Creon says this to Antigone) This example from the short story could be considered dramatically ironic. The reader knows that Creon is the one who is obstinate and will not listen to his son‚ therefore resulting in him to have the greatest fall. When Creon’s son‚ Antigone’s fiancé‚ begs Creon to spare Antigone her life he wouldn’t listen and
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FIGURE OF SPEECH : A mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet’s sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader. Some important figures of speech are: simile‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ hyperbole and symbol. Adjunction: Adjunction refers to a clause or a phrase‚ usually a verb‚ that is added at the beginning
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wealth and possessions. Purposely narrated in an omniscient point of view‚ this short story interweaves situational and imagery to illustrate that materialism will not satisfy the deepest yearnings of the heart. The first instance of situational irony is found in the beginning of the story‚ where Hester‚ the mother had all the possessions that anyone could wish for in her early years‚ but bad circumstances occurred that stripped all her wealth and material goods away. Her dissatisfaction and continual
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which is Dramatic Irony as the title is Welcome To Holland. The ramifications of particular discoveries in the play Away differ for all individual characters and their situations. The three families are seen as separate beings of the Australian community as they held different class‚ experiences‚ attitudes and aspirations. The text is written as a play and opens up with the use of metatheater with a school performance of Shakespeare’s Memorable play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The irony within the play
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you’re a good man! You’re not at all common!" Just some of the last pleading words of the grandmother in the story‚ "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O’Connor. In the story‚ the author uses colloquialism‚ point-of-view‚ foreshadowing‚ and irony‚ as well as other rhetorical devices‚ to portray the satire of southern beliefs and religion throughout the entire piece. Flannery O’Connor lived most of her life in the southern state of Georgia. When once asked what the most influential things
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Simile : A comparison between two distinctly different things‚ objects or events. It consists in placing two different things side by side and comparing them with regard to some quality common to them. First the two objects must be different in kind. Secondly‚ the point of resemblance between the two different object or event must be clearly brought out. Such words are used for comparison : ‘like’ or ‘as’. A simple example of Robert Burns‚ “O my love’s like a red rose.” Errors like strews upon
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with her letters based 99.99999% on false assumptions and maybe… just. Maybe like 0.0000001% on her imaginative observations. Section : Poetic Devices Now‚ we will be moving onto identifying the poetic devices in the story. Shirley Jackson irony in various cases. She plays with the names of characters and streets to emphasize the ironic nature of Ms. Strangeworth
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literary devices. Irony‚ foreshadowing‚ personification‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ metaphor and repetition are some of the major literary techniques used by Chopin within this short story about a woman named Mrs. Mallard. Although the story covers only one hour in the life of the main character‚ the use of these various literary techniques present the theme of the story to the reader in a very entertaining manner. The "Story of an Hour" is primarily a story of great irony. Irony is first demonstrated
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The Irony of “The Necklace” “The Necklace” has a few different examples of irony in it. Of course it is ironic how the necklace ended up being fake‚ but it is also ironic that Mme. Forestier lied about the necklace being real. Many people think the theme to be to not tells lies and to just be honest‚ and then this would not have happened to Mathilde‚ but Mathilde was not the only one who lied. There is great irony in the fact that the necklace ended up being fake‚ and also that both women lied
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the soul and heart when someone that he loves dearly is shot. The story’s theme is intensified through situational irony‚ which shows the pointlessness of armed conflict. <br> <br>Unexpected senseless occurrences happen when situational irony comes to effect. Like the time the Republican sniper unnecessarily lights up a smoke‚ which glows and shows his location on a rooftop; the irony unexpectedly occurs when an old lady whom is a spy descries the Republican sniper. This incident is ironic because
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