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    HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our

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    Satire/Irony in ‘The Lottery’: The Lucky Ticket The use of Satire/Irony within literature establishes situations where the unlikelihood of the occurrence of an event will happen. Jackson’s manipulation of his story‚ The Lottery‚ provides an unexpected twist to what one may seem to be a normal subject. Northrop Frye’s The Singing School‚ suggests that all stories are told in either one of four ways: Comedy‚ Romance‚ Tragedy or Satire/Irony (Frye 18). The use of Irony and its conventional associations

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    Unfortunate Irony In the poem “Hope” by Ariel Dorfman the use of irony is what really sets and delivers the mood of this heart wrenching story. The author uses a very straight forward approach in this poem because they are essentially just telling the story‚ adding loose rhythm and rhyme structure. The best way for the author to get the point of this tragedy across is with subtle but profound irony. The mother and father finding “joy” in this horrible event is the best example of irony. Irony in my

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    letters. The overall theme of the story is everything is not what it seems. Jackson utilizes the story to show how a person may not seem like the person you thought they were. Ms. Strangeworth appears to be a sweet old lady‚ but is she really? Throughout the story her true colors begin to reveal. Jackson develops this central idea through the use of irony. Through all three types of irony the theme is expressed. The first use of irony Shirley applies is verbal irony. When Ms. Strangeworth says to

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    Irony is the general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising‚ interesting‚ or amusing contradictions. Two stories from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that serve as excellent demonstrations of irony are "The Pardoners Tale" and "The Nun’s Priest’s Tale." Although these two stories are very different‚ they both use irony to teach a lesson. In "The Pardoner’s Tale‚ the Pardoner uses his story to speak out against many social problems‚ all of which he is guilty of. He preaches about

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    In “The Odyssey‚” Homer effectively uses symbolism and irony to show the challenges of interrelation family commitment and spiritual patronage can influence the course of one’s destiny. During the classical period of Greek societal custom women were under the protection of their father‚ husband or a male relative. The opening scene in book 1 illustrates how the twenty-year absence of King Odysseus caused great legal and economic threat to the royal crown placing Telemachus the son and young prince

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    injuries he had done to him. This is a short story called‚ “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe used verbal irony to foreshadow the grim demise of Fortunato in the story of the Cask of Amontillado. Throughout the story‚ Poe used a lot of verbal irony to foreshadow the death of Fortunato. An example of verbal irony is when Montressor replies to Fortunato during a toast‚ “And I to your [Fortunato] long life” (99). This is verbal irony since Montessor knows that Fortunato will

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    elements in their stories. One way that authors do this is by introducing irony. Irony is an outcome of events that is contrary to what was expected. Many authors may use three different types of irony to get their point across. These types of irony are verbal‚ dramatic‚ or situational. They may apply irony to turn a story around and to give it a twist. One author who utilizes this technique is Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales. In fact‚ Chaucer enhances irony in his story “The Miller’s Tale

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    Badheka‚Gijubhai ( 1885 -1939 ) Girijashanker Badheka‚ generally known as Gijubhai‚ the most outstanding personality in the field of pre-primary education‚ was born to Bhagwanji and Sm. Kashiba of Vala in Saurashtra at Chittal 9Saurashtra) in the house of his maternal grandfather on 15 November 1885. He had his early education at a primary school at Vala and later passed the Matriculation from Bhavnagar around 1905. He joined the Shamlals College‚ but had to leave his studies incomplete and

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    short stories‚ he draws his audience in and grabs their attention from the very beginning. Due to his unique system of writing‚ Poe has a way of controlling the majority of his readers’ feelings‚ or emotions. He has mastered the art of writing by disciplining himself to use specific words and styles in which he can affect his readers in any way he chooses to make them think or feel. Poe uses suspense‚ irony‚ and symbolism to seize his readers’ attention in almost every single one of his stories. Poe

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