TONE PARAGRAPH: IRONY There is a sense of irony in Yann Martel’s novel ‘Life of Pi’. “You are so bored you sink into a state of apathy so close to a coma…in your boredom there are elements of terror… and in the grip of terror -the worst storm- you yet feel boredom‚ a deep weariness with it all.”(p217) Pi feels terror yet in the midst of that terror is the ironic part; he’s bored. One would expect Pi to be hopeless while on the lifeboat‚ yet it’s the opposite. He is hopeful and believes one
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within its pages‚ yet throughout the history of literature‚ writings have been banned with the dislike of the precious information held inside of these plays‚ books‚ scripts‚ etc. The Tragedy of Othello‚ the Moor of Venice‚ a Shakespeare classical play‚ has been argued both unfit and inappropriate for teenagers of high school age. In Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Othello‚ a Moor in the Venetian Army‚ married a young Venetian girl‚ Desdemona‚ who he loved dearly. Later on‚ we discover Iago and his master plan
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"The Necessity for Irony" begins in narrative tone‚ when on a unremarkable Sunday Eavan‚ with her daughter‚ go browsing for antiques in town. However‚ by the end of the poem‚ Eavan’s tone is lyrical‚ as she sends an apostrophe to the "spirit of irony‚" asking it to "reproach" her for focusing on antiques rather than what was truly beautiful‚ her child. Her dramatic shift in tone is slow and accomplished using various techniques. In the first stanza of "The Necessity for Irony‚" Eavan begins to build
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The dramatic irony is when Fortunato‚ is not aware of his own actions. Montresor entertains himself and the reader as he leads Fortunato into his trap. The setting of the story is ironic‚ in that Montresor has chosen the cheerful carnival season to facilitate his murder because no one will be around to witness. As they drink the Medoc‚ Fortunato drinks to the
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a fictional story about a group of boys who crash land on an island with no adult supervision. The entire plot surrounds them as they try to survive on the island while maintaining an equal balance between the savagery of surviving and keeping a modern civil society. The boys eventually split into two different tribes one savagery and the other civil. This book is Allegorical story meaning that it conveys two different stories one literal and the other by using
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Situational Irony - There is situational irony near the end of the story. This happens when Nathan retells the story of how he saved Delia over Eunice. The reader expects Nathan to explain how he didn’t choose who he saved‚ due to the fact that it was too dark. Nonetheless‚ the reader finds out that Nathan knowingly saved Delia first‚ after identifying the fur of Eunice’s coat. This creates a plot twist‚ and increases the reader’s interest in the story‚ despite it happening in the last few lines
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the country and the sacrifice of his son is very worthy and something he can recover from. This is why‚ as you see I do not even wear mourning” and “and our sons go‚ when they are twenty….they die inflamed and happy” makes it very clear that the man has pride for his son. However‚ the conflict is presented when the woman bundled in corner asked “Then…is your son really dead?” and the fat traveler “[fixed] his great‚ bulging‚ horribly watery eyes” and “broke into harrowing‚ heart-rending‚ uncontrollable
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In the first scene of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus‚ Menenius tells a short story about how a human body wasted away. He begins with the “members” (organs of the body‚ excluding the stomach) complaining about how the “belly” (the stomach) does no work while the members do all of the work. Menenius continues by saying that the members felt like slaves who had to provide for all of the belly’s wants. The members decided to stop doing what they felt was “all the work‚” and they let the belly starve.
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story which has a twist in it. As you read the story you are not really sure what exactly the Lottery is. It is very vague and the term is used loosely. It is somewhat misleading you to think that the Lottery is something good. The author uses Tess to give foreshadowing. By Tess’s behavior and words you know that she is nervous. Tess is the protagonist in this story. The author leaves us believing that Tess gets killed by the townspeople. The Lottery is a tradition in their town and has been for many
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never come inside the house” (Walker‚ 1973‚1). Dee arrives in her rural childhood home proudly sporting "[Her hair] stands straight up like the wool on a sheep" afro coupled with a decked out fashionable African dress and jewelry. Not to mention‚ an irony occurred when Dee’s Muslim boyfriend greeted “Assalamualaikum” to Mama mistaken it as his name. Dee have a new persona Wangero to participate in a cultural trend of the 1970’s. Dee explain to her
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