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    story I want a Wife speaks about how she herself being wife would love to have a wife who perform all the required duties assigned with this stereo-typical image. Judy Brady’s short story is a clear example of Feminist writing and is dripping with sarcasm‚ just as Jane Austen‚ who is considered to one of the pioneers of feminist writing. Though the stories‚style and writing of both are completely different the theme is in essence the same. Women and the pursuit and qualities of a wife are questioned

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    effect‚ and later classification of pollution into ground water and air methods is used Saukko starts the essay off by saying‚ "Poisoning the earth can be difficult because the earth is always trying to cleanse and renew itself." She not only uses sarcasm to make reader think what she is saying is meant to taken literally‚ but she classifies the main methods to poison the earth. She stress the need for toxic chemicals like uranium-238‚ plutonium‚ PCB‚ and DDT. Along with the need to spread those chemicals

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    have a desk in the middle of stage‚ same camera angles‚ similar introduction music and even the Colbert Report was created in response to how successful the Daily Show became. They are related to each other with their language use such as cursing‚ sarcasm and comedy‚ but they differ in delivery and style. John Stewart’s personality of liberalism is polar opposite of that of Steven Colbert’s sarcastically conservative character. The Daily show and the Colbert Report can be considered brother shows;

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    On Two Types of “Funny” Life without comedy is like a picture without color. No matter how interesting the scene may be‚ a certain element is lacking and excitement tends to stay confined. The same could be said for humor that is written and humor that is acted out on stage right in front of you; one is grey the other has color. It was surprising‚ however‚ that after reading Bill Bryson’s collection of newspaper columns I’m a Stranger Here Myself‚ and watching Seinfeld’s I’m Telling you for the

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    in his sarcasm” (Jenna Baker‚ MST Publishing‚ 2011). Kirkus Review said‚ “…Bryson is a talented portraitist of place. He did his natural-history homework‚ which is to say he knows a jack-o-lantern mushroom from a hellbender salamander from a purple warty back mussel‚ and can also write seriously about the devastation of chestnut blight” (2004). Almost every review of this novel shows Bryson’s incredible duality of sarcasm and truth within the book. The humor he uses is a very bright sarcasm that includes

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    Authors David Sedaris and Dorothy Allison each have backgrounds that include many of life’s difficulties and travesties. Once you understand where they came from‚ you get a sense that their writing styles‚ act as therapeutic defense mechanisms to overcome their demons. It is in writing these stories that they appear to release these demons‚ and gain the strength needed‚ to lead a productive life and cope on a daily basis. While they share many similarities‚ in many ways‚ they could not be more

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    Logotherapy more straightforward. The diction within Frankl’s book shows many degrading words said by the Capos‚ they oversaw the inmates barracks‚ towards him and the other inmates. The word choices do switch throughout the memoir; from degrading to sarcasm and then to medical terminology towards the end. At the beginning‚ Frankl explains his life in the concentration camps‚ in which the inmates were treated like anything besides a human being. The degrading diction used was to show the

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    BOWLING FOR COLOMBINE MICHEAL MOORE DOCUMANTARY There are many techniques that you can use to show in a documentary‚ facts about people‚ places and events and “Bowling for Columbine” is a documentary that shows all of those plus more. Michael Moore has got a unique way of using all the techniques that you would see in a documentary to get his story and opinion across to the viewers. Usually in documentaries the producers are behind the camera and in the editing room but what makes

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    I make use of sarcasm to not only put some of myself into my writing‚ but also to give a personal feel to the words‚ making them more relatable and believable. As Allan Sloan said‚ “I talk that way‚ so I write that way.” Although‚ my sarcasm may not transfer as well on paper as it would in person‚ I try to keep everything I type on the keyboard‚ or scribble down on a piece of

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    time. Various comic resources are used in this first scene where Jack is coming back from work and his wife‚ Poppy‚ waits for him with a great welcome surprise where family and friends are gathering together too. He makes use of ironic situations‚ sarcasm‚ visual and black humor‚ dramatic and embarrassing situations also‚ to make up this scene a humorous scene. The first situation of humor in this scene is between the dialogue of Yvonne and Ken: Yvonne: “Jack is here‚ Mr Ayres. He has just arrives”

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