hopeless in trying to protect herself. As shown in the book the main protagonist tells her story in a diary. In the Color Purple many ironic devices are used to show the true meaning of the book.The ironic that the author used are situational irony and symbolism. The situational irony plays a big part in the book because it displayed many use of those devices noticed a lot of it used. For example when Mr.__ and Celie go visit shug they both fall in love with her even though she doesn’t want nothing to do
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Situational irony was a key factor in The Gift of The Magi. Without the irony‚ the story would have been less interesting to readers and have a lesser meaning. The irony connects the story together fully and catches the reader’s eye. Della and Jim‚ the two main characters‚ are married and live in a small flat together. They are poor and only have 2 items that they see to have great value‚ Della’s hair and Jim’s watch. Della’s hair is long‚ curly‚ and beautiful. Jim’s watch is gold and has been passed
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In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut writes about World War ||. While writing about the reality of war‚ Vonnegut also writes about Billy Pilgrim’s life both before and after the war‚ and from his travels to the planet Tralfamadore. Billy is able to move both forwards and backwards through his lifetime in an unpredictable cycle of events. Since Slaughterhouse-Five’s central topic is the horror of the Dresden bombing‚ Billy comes across many questions about the meanings of life and death
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sound imagery‚ irony‚ and repeated elements‚ which he uses to create an emotional effect for his readers. In Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” he uses sound imagery to describe Fortunato’s sickness. The quote from “The Cask of Amontillado” to describe Fortunato’s sickness is “Enough‚ ‘he said; ‘the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die from a cough.” For this sound imagery you should feel horror
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Failure to take responsibility for one’s actions is universally seen as a self-inflicted wound with fateful consequences. However in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five‚ the very nature of social responsibility and free will is challenged. The Tralfamadorians‚ an alien race from a distant planet‚ capture protagonist Billy Pilgrim‚ and introduces him to the fourth dimension. As Billy travels through time and learns that events in time are structured to be inevitable and irreversible‚ he accepts his
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Slaughterhouse-Five Summative Assessment As said before‚ postmodernism is something hard to define and spot. There are several examples of postmodernism and they are: fragmentation‚ paradox‚ metanarratives‚ irony/black humor‚ and many more. Relating to Slaughterhouse-Five‚ I did a soundtrack that showed postmodernism within it. My soundtrack shows fragmentation because time leaps from one song to another and while it’s at that‚ the songs talk about different events My soundtrack includes the songs:
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earning wealth. Swift inserts his use of situational irony‚ metonymy‚ logos‚ and allusion to mock the lack of interest the British government has in reconstructing Ireland. Swift begins his writing with situational irony‚ as he describes his town as great. He discusses the many negatives within‚ as well as the “eye sore” that is seen upon entering‚ “It is a melancholy object to those‚ who walk through this great town”. The use of great town relates to irony‚ as the town is anything but great with
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The story “The Gift of the Magi” Irony is the opposite of what’s expected. There are three type of irony‚ the first type of irony is verbal irony it can also be called sarcasm or being sarcastic. The next irony is dramatic irony it is when the author lets the reader into the secret. The third irony is situational irony and it is when no one knows something was going to happen. So in this case he used dramatic irony because we knew that Della cut her hair so she can buy a Christmas gift for Jim.
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Spoon is used as a verb‚ a noun and was mention more than several times throughout chapters six through eight. In a war novel when people are slaughtered on a daily basis the frequent usage of spoon seemed a bit out of syntax unless Vonnegut was trying to point out or emphasis through usage of the word spoon. In chapter six‚ the American soldiers was spooning each other for warmth. This passage made the American soldiers seemed vulnerable and humane. It has given them a more feminine twist
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Slaughterhouse Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim who has become “unstuck in time.” Young Billy is born and raised in Ilium‚ New York‚ he is "tall and weak‚ and shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola‚" and studying to be an optometrist. He is drafted into the U.S. military and despite his scrawny‚ weak build‚ he is sent to Europe to fight. While fighting in Germany‚ Billy is all of a sudden sent to 1968‚ where the plane he was on has crashed into the mountains of Vermont. He becomes aware that we possesses
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