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    Blue Blue Green

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    One (1): The numerology meaning of this number is unity‚ beginnings‚ God‚ masculine‚ creative‚ symbol of physical and mental activity. It’s a number that expresses leadership‚ spotlight type individuality. There’s a tendency to being organized‚ and ambitious. Ones go to the top in everything that peaks their interest‚ reflecting a natural leader. They are forerunners and original thinkers. Leadership or a position of power is where they’re happiest. Often‚ they are loners‚ and can be aggressive.

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    The Necklace Irony

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    2012 Enc 1102 The Irony In "The Necklace"‚ by Guy De Maupassant As I worked on my pervious paper‚ I questioned myself if there was a literary term and if there was which one over powered the story. As I began research for this essay and typed in "The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant" in the Google toolbar‚ I saw the word irony and quickly came up with the question as to‚ where is the irony in the story "The Necklace"? To my surprise‚ this story surrounds itself with irony being found in the smallest

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    commonly used literary devices is irony. Irony can be defined as the difference between appearance and reality‚ or when a reader expects or assumes one thing and the opposite is true. It allows an author to engage and surprise the audience‚ which often also teaches an important lesson. Two classic examples of irony through literature are Oedipus the King by Sophocles and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. In the play Oedipus the King‚ Sophocles uses dramatic irony for the moral and political education

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    The Birthmark as a Symbol

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    The Birthmark as a Symbol In Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s‚ The Birthmark‚ the symbolism is quite evident of the birthmarks upon Georgiana ’s face. It represents Aylmer ’s struggles with nature and science‚ through his repeated attempts of the removal of it. This clash between science and nature illustrates the concept of man versus woman‚ through the femininity of nature and the masculine traits of the world of science. Throughout the story‚ nature is portrayed as feminine and is even present through

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    Irony in "The Lottery"

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    Irony in “The Lottery” Irony‚ generally described as expressing something different from or opposite to a literal meaning‚ is used as an underlying theme in Shirley Jackson’s short story‚ The Lottery. As an age-old tradition‚ the lottery is one in which a single person in the town is randomly chosen‚ by a drawing‚ to be violently stoned by friends and family. The main example of irony throughout the story resides within the fact that the word lottery suggests that the winning villager is going

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    Sonny's Blues

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    musician provides us with many elements in their music such as being their life story‚ different perceptions of their pieces‚ and the ability of healing the soul. In "Sonny’s Blues" the narrator’s brother was talented in playing the piano later on we found out that is how he expresses his emotions. In the story‚ when Sonny was staying in Isabel house they “confessed that they were not living with a person‚ it

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    [/A | /B]] [/V] [/Y | /-Y] source Specifies the file or files to be copied. /A Indicates an ASCII text file. /B Indicates a binary file. destination Specifies the directory and/or filename for the new file(s). /V Verifies that new files are written correctly. /Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file. /-Y Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an

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    Symbols In Trifles

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    In Glaspell’s drama Trifles‚ she conveys a theme that relationships can be oppressive. Three symbols used to convey the theme are the cage‚ the rope‚ and the bird. In the drama Trifles‚ Glaspell uses the cage as a symbol to represent the marriage. About half way into the drama Mrs. Hale begins to make comments about the house‚ Mrs. Hale. It never seemed a very cheerful place. This shows a relationship between the marriage and the setting. It resembles an unhappy place‚ much like a prison; furthermore

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    Irony in the Crucible

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    Irony in The Crucible In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible there is a severe amount of irony during the Salem witch trials. The idea of the witch trials was to find peace in Salem but dolefully brought conflict and death to the community. There are numerous events that pertain irony such as Elizabeth lying to the court about her husband committing adultery‚ how the society was supposed to be moral but is very greedy and cold‚ and how the court system is not based on justice but merely about gaining

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    Irony In The Crucible

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    use of rhetorical devices such as symbolism‚ foreshadowing‚ and irony. Also his risky personality that provoked him to write this story as play instead of a novel. Writing a play is exceptionally harder to pull off‚ and Arthur Miller did just that. To have this much success with a piece of literature‚ rhetorical devices are a must‚ and a huge one that

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