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    is Hard to Find” there is irony all through the pages. It shows how you should follow your gut instinct when you think you shouldn’t go somewhere‚ when you know something bad is going to happen. In the story it also talks about how the grandmother wore her nice clothes in case of an accident‚ she wanted to look like a lady in case anything bad was to happen. The grandmother was constantly talking about the good in people‚ but was she a good woman? The first bit of irony the story throws at the reader

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    In Legend by Marie Lu the author uses situational irony to add unexpected or mysterious actions to keep the plot rich and interesting. At this point in the story‚ June and Thomas are watching a riot begin. June and Thomas are watching from a raised platform outside Batalla Hall. The riot began because of the sentencing of Day‚ they did not want/like that. The main problem that shows situational irony is that instead of just throwing dust bombs or tar gases (like they normally do)‚ the soldiers are

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    The use of irony in "Advice to Youth" by Mark Twain “(born Nov. 30‚ 1835‚ Florida‚ Mo.‚ U.S.—died April 21‚ 1910‚ Redding‚ Conn.) American humorist‚ journalist‚ lecturer‚ and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives‚ especially The Innocents Abroad (1869)‚ Roughing It (1872)‚ and Life on the Mississippi (1883)‚ and for his adventure stories of boyhood‚ especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur‚ distinctive

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    Irony is the art of expressing two meanings simultaneously; the obvious surface meaning the majority will regard as the only meaning and on a deeper profounder meaning which lies behind the obvious. The tension created by this ambivalence can be and has been put to a variety of uses. Ironies abound in Shakespeare‚ so do they in Dryden and Poe.Shakespeare employs them to underscore the tragic plight of a man‚ while Dryden and Pope use them to mock at human follies and foibles.among the forty eight

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    happened. Or maybe you used sarcasm‚ a form of irony‚ to emphasize a point. These are examples of literary devices. Literary devices are tools that help convey the author’s ideas and points‚ and just as you use them in your stories‚ authors use them in their novels. One literary device Achebe uses is irony. Irony is when what happens or what is said is the opposite of what you would have expected or are thinking. We can see an example of tragic irony in Okonkwo’s suicide at the end of Things Fall

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    English 9 Irony in Gordimer’s two stories Gordimer used irony in both stories “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” and “Once Upon a Time”. Irony played an essential role in these short stories and coincidentally‚ they both ended with a similar conclusion‚ the death of a family member. Moreover‚ both stories revealed Gordimer’s visions of post-apartheid. Sadly‚ due to Gordimer’s description of South African apartheid‚ the South African government censored her books. In “Once Upon a Time”‚ irony was extremely

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    P. Vedula English-1102 (60384) 04 July 2012 Rough draft with markups on irony in “A Pair of Tickets” and “A Rocking Horse Winner” Two of the many definitions of irony that I like are found on dictionary.com. The first definition states that irony is “incongruity between what is expected to be and what actually is‚ or a situation or result showing such incongruity” (“Irony”). The second defines Dramatic irony as "…irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by

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    Irony is deliberately shown through the leading female characters in the short stories “The Story of an Hour‚” “A Rose for Emily‚” and also “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” These stories place these women in ironic situations based around their time period and their location. The ironic situations that the authors place these female characters in are largely based around the events that are occurring in that time and place. The irony in the stories is revealed through the actions of the main female

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    A type of irony used sometimes is where the reader knows more than he author. The irony is used to foreshadow what will happen. The author Edgar Allen Poe uses irony in the short story the cask of amontillado. There are 2 types of irony. There is situational and then there is verbal irony. In the short story “the cask of amontillado” ____ irony is used. The first example of irony in this short story is Fortunato’s name. According to “Behind the name” the late latin name Fortunatus means "fortunate

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    Mrs. Andros fails to discipline her daughter‚ and even goes as far as to laugh alongside Ede. A simple spat spirals into an all out brawl as F. Scott Fitzgerald carefully folds verbal‚ character‚ situational‚ and dramatic irony into the plot of “The Baby Party”. This usage of irony conveys that the projected exterior of a person

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