Irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (Merriam Webster Dictionary) Of the four soldiers wandering behind enemy lines after the Battle of the Bulge‚ Billy Pilgrim is the least soldierly and least likely to survive. He’s the only one who survives. He also survives the incineration of Dresden‚ not bad for an unfit prisoner of war. He is also the lone survivor of an airplane crash. Edgar Derby is tried and executed for plundering
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Authors of short stories use elements of style to make their stories interesting. There are many elements of style used by authors. Irony and theme are often used in short stories. This is clearly shown in O. Henry’s short stories such as: “The Gift of the Magi‚” “The Lickpenny Lover‚” “The Midsummer Knights Dream‚” “The Cop and the Anthem‚” and “Ships.” The short stories of O. Henry use the element of theme to bring about ironic endings. In “The Gift of the Magi” there are elements of theme throughout
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with an essay by Charles Gordon‚ When Irony Becomes Cynicism. Through his essay‚ one learns where irony’s roots started to grow into today’s monster that it is‚ and how irony is overused in television‚ radio and conversation. Gordon has skillfully and honestly shown how irony is perceived and used in today’s society. He fully shows that people use irony incorrectly‚ and it is to their disadvantage. 	Gordon has a particularly negative view on how much irony is used today. The thesis in his essay
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Scott-Heron calls himself a bluesologist. He is sixty-one‚ tall and scrawny‚ and he lives in Harlem‚ in a ground-floor apartment that he doesn’t often leave. It is long and narrow‚ and there’s a bedspread covering a sliding glass door to a patio‚ so no light enters‚ making the place seem like a monk’s cell or a cave. Once‚ when I thought he was away‚ I called to convey a message‚ and he answered and said‚ “I’m here. Where else would a caveman be but in his cave?” Recently‚ I arrived at his apartment
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Paper #2 Throughout time sitcoms have used satire‚ irony and parody to entertain and get laughs out of its audience. Almost everyone likes certain sitcoms for different reasons‚ but mostly because they enjoy a good laugh. I want to talk about sitcoms and what is hiding behind the satire‚ irony and parodies. Sitcoms are meant to help its audience through social anxieties without fully coming out and saying what it is doing. The word sitcom is actually two words put together which was once called
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Janice Heron is the teacher who has the honor of teaching a “golden mean” this year. Janice Heron refers to her class as the “golden mean” due to the fact that her students in this years class consisted of low‚ middle‚ and high socioeconomic statuses. This classroom was also made up of an equal percentage of hispanic‚ white‚ and black students (Silverman‚ Welty‚ & Lyon‚ 1996‚ p.125). Throughout her eighteen years of experience with teaching‚ Janice Heron has had the opportunity of working with students
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The Red Crested Night Heron in the short story‚ “Night calls” by Lisa Fugard‚ symbolizes the dad’s depression and sadness for the loss of his wife. The start of the story explains how Marlene‚ her dad‚ and her mom lived in a happy sanctuary for animals. The county graciously granted to the family‚ a beautiful and endangered‚ Red Crested Night Heron‚ to keep in their sanctuary. Sadly the mom‚ died in a car crash and Marlene’s father completely shut down and sent her off to boarding school. When Marlene
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is about a Blue Heron‚ a bird‚ that is looking is looking for food in November. As I was reading the poem‚ I decided to focus on the first half of the poem for my melody. Picturing a Blue Heron walking through the cold ponds in November with his gray hunched shoulders made me think of the tempo and the dynamics for this piece. Right from the start‚ I knew that this melody could not be fast‚ allegro‚ or even
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Summary Cady Heron is a sixteen-year-old girl who has been homeschooled for most of life and lived in Africa for four years with her parents who was zoologists until her mom get a new job‚ so they had to move. On her first week of school‚ Cady meet Damien and Janis who befriend her‚ and the next day‚ Cady skip class with Janis and Damien. As they sit out on a field Janis points out the plastics‚ Karen‚ Gretchen‚ and Regina and Janis also make Cady a map of the lunch room showing where each cliques
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Sarah Vander Loop January 8‚ 2012 English 2B The Titanic The R.M.S. Titanic by Hanson W. Baldwin is a story using irony to immensely interest the reader. The author uses both dramatic and situational irony. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something important that the characters do not know. Situational irony is when what happens is the opposite of what is expected to happen or should have happened. “The Titanic was unsinkable…” was a thought that ran through many people’s heads as
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