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    my best to avoid a tone of moral superiority and aim for engagement. I hope I have succeeded. Ultimately I would rather be helpful than right.” This is a major final breakthrough between her and the audience. Throughout the chapter‚ her rage and sarcasm can be mistakenly directed at the audience; or rather the audience does not feel excluded from it. These words in the last paragraph reduce most‚ if any‚ residual footing between Keith and the reader and puts them on friendly terms: a very important

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    grandson life’s lessons-beginning with the ketchup‚ the high comedy letter‚ by Dave Barry‚ the author uses comedy in the form of of being witty‚ situational irony‚ and sarcasm‚ furthermore narrator drives home the idea through humorous situations of living right and to be happy in life. To amuse the audience reading‚ Dave uses sarcasm that

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    expected to do. Along with irony‚ the author uses sarcasm and repetition to emphasize what a wife does for her husband‚ as well as her children. I believe the author’s tone changes from pleasant to sarcastic by stating “If‚ by chance‚ I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have‚ I want the liberty to replace my present wife with another one”. Here Judy Brady portrays a wife as easily replaceable and uses sarcasm to demonstrate that. Judy Brady in her short story

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    think. The sarcasm may range from anything mildly

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    using a lot of sarcasm‚ whenever he was trying to prove his point‚ or prove someone else wrong. I think that this method of peer pressure is one of the most powerful ones. I believes so‚ because when you are embarrassed in front of 11 other people (in this case jurors) you do not know‚ really lowers your self-esteem. It may lower it to the point where you will say guilty‚ eve though deep down inside‚ you will feel that the person is innocent. This is a quote I picked to illustrate sarcasm skillfully

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    The sarcasm makes ideas seem ridiculous which only aids to her writing. Collins quotes Young saying that she can pick up her three year old son when she was pregnant. A 3 year old would weigh more than any package Young would have to carry. Collins comments on this with sarcasm saying that women who have children constantly pick up and carry children. At those young ages the children are often

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    characters from the franchise “Harry Potter‚” in order to depict Malcolm Turnbull‚ Bill Shorten and Richard Di Natale as untrustworthy‚ immature and naïve children. Through the use of satirical devices including mockery and parody‚ captioning and sarcasm‚ and metaphor and symbolism‚ Pope has successfully positioned the audience to view our ministerial hierarchies critically‚ shattering their public façade of morality and respect and foregrounding their duplicitous nature. The entirety of “The Defense

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    life is nonexistent. DeMott uses sarcasm as his main method to prove his point to the audience. His audience is everyone because he uses media that every kind of person has seen or knows about. He uses movies‚ politics‚ newspaper articles‚ and songs; so everyone can know the truth about how these interracial relationships won’t work‚ in DeMott’s eyes. DeMott says that the movies “reflect a wish and dream” (95). The main key in DeMott’s strategy is his use of sarcasm. He uses politics in his argument

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    The peculiar essence of the poem "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" written by Robert Browning lies in the impression of violent and disordered hatred. This feeling is revealed by the very structure of the work. The poem is framed by bestial growl at first word and closing line. The first onomatopeaic growl opens the soliloquist’s confession of malice for Brother Lawrence: "Gr-r-r -- there go my heart’s abhorrence!/ Water your damned flowerpots‚ do!" Another "Gr-r-r" marks the end of the work. Both

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    The students are familiar with the definition of satire and they understand that it is sarcasm used to convey insults or scorn. The full title of the story is “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents‚ or the Country‚ and for making them Beneficial to the Publick”. Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal is an excellent example of the sharp wit and biting sarcasm that was employed in the satire of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

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